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To Google, HTTPS was at 48% adoption in 2014. [0] This is 14 years after its initial specification (RFC 2818), even longer if you take Netscape into account. An
by orangeboats 3y ago
To Google, HTTPS was at 48% adoption in 2014. [0] This is 14 years after its initial specification (RFC 2818), even longer if you take Netscape into account. And this is despite the fact that HTTPS is completely done in software, which typically gets updated more often than hardware.
I stand by my assessment that 45% adoption after 12 years is actually pretty good.
[0]: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en
(I use Google's data for both HTTPS and IPv6 stats. If you consider 3rd party data, HTTPS adoption is way worse, even to this day it hasn't topped 75%.)