<P> It is recommended to use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with HTTPS to protect users from man - in - the - middle attacks, especially SSL stripping . </P> <P> HTTPS should not be confused with the little - used Secure HTTP (S - HTTP) specified in RFC 2660 . </P> <P> As of November 2017, 27.7% of Alexa top 1,000,000 websites use HTTPS as default, 43.1% of the Internet's 141,387 most popular websites have a secure implementation of HTTPS, and 45% of page loads (measured by Firefox Telemetry) use HTTPS . </P> <P> According to Mozilla, since January 2017, more than half of web traffic is encrypted . </P>

The most common protocol for website encryption is https (hypertext transfer protocol secure)
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