On a webmaster video hangout yesterday, Google trends analyst John Mueller strongly recommended that people migrating from HTTP to HTTPS do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. He said you should ...

Google is working on adding an HTTPS-Only Mode to the Chrome web browser to protect users' web traffic from eavesdropping by upgrading all connections to HTTPS. This new feature is now being tested in ...

Google Chrome is ready to call out any website still using HTTP over HTTPS. Credit: thomas trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images You may soon start to see a slew of warnings about how some of your ...

Google has said HTTPS migrations should be done all at once and should not result in traffic loss. I covered some of these migrations in detail over the years. It is cool to see index counts on HTTPS ...

Google is bringing a subtle yet controversial change to its Chrome web browser. Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users ...

Google's efforts to knock the web into a state of HTTPS-by-default is showing signs of working, with a significant rise in HTTPS traffic on Chrome on Android, Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS. A year ago ...

Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. This feature is called ...

Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console that not only shows which pages are being served under HTTPS but also why the pages not being served under HTTPS are having issues.

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), i.e. insecure sites. John said yes, being on HTTPS is not a requirement to rank in Google Search he ...

Over the years, Chrome has been a big proponent of increasing HTTPS adoption to improve privacy and security on the web. The latest Chrome steps include rolling out an HTTPS-First Mode and ...