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But why is https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certificate https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif... saying Let’s Encryp
by marina8888 10y ago
But why is https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certificate https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif... saying Let’s Encrypt has 0.1% when https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ says 32 million Fully-Qualified Domains Active?
32 million = 0.1%
32 000 million SSL certs? = 100%
? what?
- M2Ys4U 10y agoThe Let's Encrypt roots were cross-signed by IdenTrust, who are number 2 in that table.
- magila 10y agoJudging by the explosive growth of IdenTrust, which cross-signs Let's Encrypt's certs, I'd guess that Let's Encrypt certs are being counted under IdenTrust.
- jaas 10y agoTLDR: Look at the IdenTrust numbers if you want to know the real Let's Encrypt numbers. Not many people use Let's Encrypt's own root for their validation chain when they use Let's Encrypt certificates. The Let's Encrypt root is not propagated widely enough across clients. We (Let's Encrypt) have a cross-signature from IdenTrust, that's what most people use because it's widely trusted. IdenTrust issuance is otherwise very small, so you can effectively consider the IdenTrust numbers in charts like this to be a proxy for Let's Encrypt. -Josh from Let's Encrypt
- schoen 10y agoW³Techs also understates the fraction of "web sites" that use LE certs because it counts only the 10,000,000 top sites. But LE alone has current valid issuance covering over 30,000,000 subject names, most of which are small sites not in the top 10,000,000 sites by traffic volume or search engine ranking. https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ https://letsencrypt.org/stats/