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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) 15.5% fail · n=13,592
modern_only: 84.5%legacy_enabled: 15.5%
France companies 8.64% fail · n=544
modern_only: 91.36%legacy_enabled: 8.64%
UK companies 11.3% fail · n=1,974
modern_only: 88.7%legacy_enabled: 11.3%
Norway companies 7.22% fail · n=790
modern_only: 92.78%legacy_enabled: 7.22%
modern_only · 92.78%legacy_enabled · 7.22%

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=143
modern_only: 90.21%legacy_enabled: 9.79%
9.79%
smalln=167
modern_only: 92.81%legacy_enabled: 7.19%
7.19%
mediumn=127
modern_only: 88.19%legacy_enabled: 11.81%
11.81%
largen=107
modern_only: 94.39%legacy_enabled: 5.61%
5.61%
UK
micron=184
modern_only: 91.85%legacy_enabled: 8.15%
8.15%
smalln=732
modern_only: 88.39%legacy_enabled: 11.61%
11.61%
medium/largen=755
modern_only: 87.95%legacy_enabled: 12.05%
12.05%
dormantn=147
modern_only: 89.12%legacy_enabled: 10.88%
10.88%
no-accountsn=156
modern_only: 89.74%legacy_enabled: 10.26%
10.26%
Norway
micron=226
modern_only: 91.15%legacy_enabled: 8.85%
8.85%
smalln=203
modern_only: 94.58%legacy_enabled: 5.42%
5.42%
mediumn=219
modern_only: 94.52%legacy_enabled: 5.48%
5.48%
largen=142
modern_only: 90.14%legacy_enabled: 9.86%
9.86%

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.