I’m HTTPS…

You are hopefully all familiar with the little padlock that appears at the start of your browser address bar indicating that a website is secure. It tells you that the website you are on is using HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) – meaning that the transfer of data is encrypted between the web server and your machine. It is more secure, but even with HTTPS, a hacker could still see which websites you are visiting, even if they can’t see what you are doing on those pages. This could still mean that a hacker could put two and two together and work out what’s going on in your life or work by the sites that you visit.

 But there is another reason why your website should be HTTPS, it’s because the internet gods (AKA Google) have deemed it so. Google thinks that all websites regardless of content should be HTTPS, and so if a website isn’t, it will appear lower in the Google search rankings and most browsers now actually tell users that the website is “Not secure” which may harm user trust.

 All of this means that ensuring that your website is on a HTTPS platform is a good thing and should be something you’re doing if you haven’t already done it - even if it’s only a promotional website.