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Legacy TLS

Share of TLS endpoints still accepting legacy TLS 1.0 or 1.1.

Measured every Thursday · last updated

How it is measured

Tier 2, via the DomainAPI TLS endpoint, which tests each protocol version explicitly. Denominator: has_web.

Why it matters

Supporting a deprecated protocol version is invisible from the browser — the site loads over TLS 1.3 and looks modern — while the server remains willing to downgrade for anything that asks.

Limits of this measurement

Must be measured server-side. A modern client cannot detect this, because its own OpenSSL refuses to offer TLS 1.0/1.1.

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) 15.43% fail · n=13,478
modern only: 84.57%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 15.43%
France companies 9.35% fail · n=556
modern only: 90.65%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 9.35%
UK companies 12% fail · n=1,984
modern only: 88%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 12%
Norway companies 6.82% fail · n=806
modern only: 93.18%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 6.82%
modern only · 93.18%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled · 6.82%

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=168
modern only: 89.29%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 10.71%
10.71%
smalln=169
modern only: 93.49%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 6.51%
6.51%
mediumn=128
modern only: 92.19%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 7.81%
7.81%
UK
micron=172
modern only: 90.7%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 9.3%
9.3%
smalln=703
modern only: 87.62%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 12.38%
12.38%
medium/largen=793
modern only: 86.38%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 13.62%
13.62%
dormantn=148
modern only: 91.89%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 8.11%
8.11%
no-accountsn=168
modern only: 91.07%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 8.93%
8.93%
Norway
micron=233
modern only: 93.99%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 6.01%
6.01%
smalln=218
modern only: 94.04%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 5.96%
5.96%
mediumn=216
modern only: 91.2%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 8.8%
8.8%
largen=139
modern only: 93.53%TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled: 6.47%
6.47%

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