Editing HTTPS (section)

===Usage in websites===
{{As of|2018|04}}, 33.2%<!-- percentages not show; calculated from 331889 sites stated--> of Alexa top 1,000,000 websites use HTTPS as default<ref>{{cite web |url=https://statoperator.com/research/https-usage-statistics-on-top-websites/ |title=HTTPS usage statistics on top 1M websites |website=StatOperator.com |access-date=20 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209055130/https://statoperator.com/research/https-usage-statistics-on-top-websites/ |archive-date=9 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> and 70%<!-- 78.68% for the US only--> of page loads (measured by Firefox Telemetry) use HTTPS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ |title=Let's Encrypt Stats |website=LetsEncrypt.org |access-date=20 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019221028/https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ |archive-date=19 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2022|12}}, 58.4% of the Internet's 135,422 most popular websites have a secure implementation of HTTPS,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/ |title=Qualys SSL Labs - SSL Pulse |website=www.ssllabs.com |date=4 December 2022 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207004823/https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/ |archive-date=7 December 2022 |url-status=live }}.</ref> However, despite [[TLS 1.3]]'s release in 2018, adoption has been slow, with many still remaining on the older TLS 1.2 protocol.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-06 |title=TLS 1.3: Slow adoption of stronger web encryption is empowering the bad guys |url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/06/tls-1-3-adoption/ |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=Help Net Security |language=en-US |archive-date=24 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524002257/https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/06/tls-1-3-adoption/ |url-status=live }}</ref>