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HTTPS & SSL certificate statistics on brand websites

HTTPS adoption, redirects, TLS versions and certificate authorities.

100%
HTTPS homepage
1,354 / 1,359
91%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect
1,209 / 1,326
95%
TLS 1.3
1,539 / 1,613
78%
HSTS
1,061 / 1,354

Certificate authorities

  1. 1 Let's Encrypt 31% 496
  2. 2 DigiCert 22% 354
  3. 3 Google Trust Services 21% 338
  4. 4 Amazon 8.2% 132
  5. 5 Sectigo 7.3% 118
  6. 6 GlobalSign 5.3% 86
  7. 7 Other 1.7% 28
  8. 8 GoDaddy / Starfield 1.7% 27
  9. 9 Entrust 0.7% 11
  10. 10 Microsoft 0.2% 4
  11. 11 Cloudflare 0.1% 2
  12. 12 SSL.com <0.1% 1

Share of 1,613 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUK brandsUnited KingdomGlobal
HTTPS homepage 100%99%98%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect 91%88%85%
TLS 1.3 95%96%89%
Let's Encrypt certificate 31%62%29%
HSTS 78%54%53%
HSTS preload 23%14%17%
Invalid certificate 0.9%1.3%2.7%
Certificate expires in < 14 days 1.2%0.4%1.1%

Certificate lifetime

1%≤ 31
54%32–90
<0.1%91–100
32%101–200
12%201–398
0%399–800
0%> 800

Days · Share of 1,598 sites in the sample.

TLS version

  1. 1 TLSv1.3 95% 1,539
  2. 2 TLSv1.2 4.6% 74

Share of 1,613 sites in the sample.

Cipher suites

  1. 1 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 71% 1,145
  2. 2 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 24% 388
  3. 3 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 2.4% 39
  4. 4 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 1.3% 21
  5. 5 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 0.6% 9
  6. 6 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 0.4% 6
  7. 7 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 0.2% 4
  8. 8 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 <0.1% 1

Share of 1,613 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 1,359 sites · UK brands · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology

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