Measuring HTTPS Adoption on the Web
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The study measures HTTPS adoption using Chrome and Firefox telemetry for client-side behavior, active scans via Mozilla Observatory and Alexa top 1M for server support, and backbone traces for network bytes; results show >50% of user page loads are HTTPS, ~88% of top100 sites support HTTPS while only ~46% of the Alexa top 1M do, and ~10% of IPv4-hosted web servers present HTTPS on port 443; adoption is rising but the long tail and some regions lag.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:25For most of the Internet's history, web traffic was unencrypted. Over the last few years, that's been changing.
- 2:31For this project, we measured how much of the web is HTTPS in 2017.
- 3:49We measured the user experience of HTTPS with browser telemetry.
- 5:402. Extended page load metric Also includes in page navigations
- 12:26CLIENT SERVER NETWORK TAKEAWAYS
- 22:18HTTPS adoption rates depend on your vantage point. Make sure your metric captures what you need.
- 24:03Significant work remains to move the long tail of the web to HTTPS
- 24:34MEASURING HTTPS ADOPTION ON THE WEB
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