Google Chrome is ready to call out any website still using HTTP over HTTPS. Credit: thomas trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images You may soon start to see a slew of warnings about how some of your ...

On a webmaster video hangout yesterday, Google trends analyst John Mueller strongly recommended that people migrating from HTTP to HTTPS do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. He said you should ...

Google has said HTTPS migrations should be done all at once and should not result in traffic loss. I covered some of these migrations in detail over the years. It is cool to see index counts on HTTPS ...

Google's efforts to knock the web into a state of HTTPS-by-default is showing signs of working, with a significant rise in HTTPS traffic on Chrome on Android, Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS. A year ago ...

Google's recent move to enable DNS over HTTPS in Chrome has been a controversial one. Intended to improve user privacy, it's been met with opposition from some ISPs and network security experts. For a ...

Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console that not only shows which pages are being served under HTTPS but also why the pages not being served under HTTPS are having issues.

Nearly two years ago, Google made a pledge: It would name and shame websites with unencrypted connections, a strategy designed to spur web developers to embrace HTTPS encryption. On Tuesday, it ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), i.e. insecure sites. John said yes, being on HTTPS is not a requirement to rank in Google Search he ...

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on ...

One of the biggest advances in web security over the last decade or so is the proliferation of secure, encrypted HTTPS connections. Once the purview of shopping and banking sites, HTTPS connections ...