While less of a concern for smaller sites with little traffic, HTTPS can add up should your site suddenly become popular. Perhaps the main reason most of us are not using HTTPS to serve our websites is simply that it doesn't work with virtual hosts.

Should all websites use HTTPS?

The internet's standards bodies, web browsers, major tech companies, and the internet community of practice have all come to understand that HTTPS should be the baseline for all web traffic.

Do all websites use HTTPS now?

Web technology fact of the day

91% of the top 1000 sites are using https by default. In other words: 9% of the top 1000 sites are still not using https by default.