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What percent of domains serve HTTPS?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, 76.3% of the 276 million domains graded in the Defaults.Exposed census serve their site over HTTPS — 210,439,319 domains. 23.7% still answer over plain HTTP only.
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
Defaults.Exposed, "What percent of domains serve HTTPS?" (as of July 28, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-percent-of-websites-use-https
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/what-percent-of-websites-use-https · Machine-readable:https-adoption.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.