Google estimates 25% of sites now use secure connections
Google will work with some of the non-secure top 100 sites on the web to help them migrate to HTTPS.
Barry Schwartz on March 15, 2016 at 5:26 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Google announced that about 25 percent of the top 100 non-Google sites on the internet are now on secure connections over HTTPS.
Google’s top 100 non-Google sites list is based on Alexa data and Google’s internal data set.
Google then published the list of the top 100 non-Google sites on their website and said, “We are open to working with all sites listed below to help them move to HTTPS by the end of 2016.”
Google broke the top list site into the following three categories:
(1) top sites running modern HTTPS by default;
(2) top sites running modern HTTPS; and
(3) other top sites.
Here is the current list:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on her personal site.