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by marginalia_nu 1679 days ago
It's funny because I got like 70% HTTP in my index, so the whole "90% of the web is encrypted" seems to depend on which sample you are looking at. Google doesn't index HTTP at all, so that's not a good place to go looking for what's the most popular. That's in fact half the reason why I built this search engine in the first place, because they demand things of websites that some websites simply can't or wont comply with.

A lot of servers still use HTTP, for various reasons. There are also some clients that can't use HTTPS.
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stjohnswarts 1679 days ago
I think there are absolute numbers and then there are "the sites most people visit regularly" and those probably are 75% https. It's relative like most things.
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marginalia_nu 1679 days ago
Absolute numbers are pretty hard to define, as is the size of the Internet.

If the same server has two domains associated with it, does it count twice? Now consider a loadbalancer that points to virtual servers on the same machine. How about subdomains?

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