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HTTPS redirect

Share of web-serving domains that do not redirect http requests to https.

Measured every Thursday · last updated

How it is measured

Tier 3a, one GET; follow redirects and read the final scheme. Denominator: has_web.

Why it matters

A valid certificate is worthless if the site still answers on port 80 — visitors and links arrive over HTTP and are never upgraded. HTTPS is "installed" but optional.

The base rate

Two independent populations. The global, domain-anchored figure is unbiased; the company-anchored figures are built by matching company names to domains and skew toward more digitally-mature firms. Both are published, so the gap is visible.

Global (all domains) 25.91% fail · n=14,006
enforced: 74.09%missing: 25.91%
France companies 32.07% fail · n=711
enforced: 67.93%missing: 32.07%
UK companies 34.55% fail · n=2,269
enforced: 65.45%missing: 34.55%
Norway companies 18.68% fail · n=862
enforced: 81.32%missing: 18.68%
enforced · 81.32%missing · 18.68%

By company size band

Company-anchored cuts (national registries with a size proxy), split by size band. Right-hand figure is the share not meeting the control.

France
micron=189
enforced: 62.96%missing: 37.04%
37.04%
smalln=209
enforced: 66.51%missing: 33.49%
33.49%
mediumn=169
enforced: 69.23%missing: 30.77%
30.77%
largen=144
enforced: 75%missing: 25%
25%
UK
micron=209
enforced: 64.11%missing: 35.89%
35.89%
smalln=834
enforced: 64.51%missing: 35.49%
35.49%
medium/largen=884
enforced: 68.78%missing: 31.22%
31.22%
dormantn=165
enforced: 56.36%missing: 43.64%
43.64%
no-accountsn=177
enforced: 63.28%missing: 36.72%
36.72%
Norway
micron=246
enforced: 73.58%missing: 26.42%
26.42%
smalln=216
enforced: 82.41%missing: 17.59%
17.59%
mediumn=237
enforced: 82.7%missing: 17.3%
17.3%
largen=163
enforced: 89.57%missing: 10.43%
10.43%

Every segment

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Slices below 100 measured members are withheld rather than shown with a wide interval — an absent country or issuer means too little data, not zero failures. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Machine-readable data per segment: append .json or .csv to its URL.