Everything You Need To Know About Switching HTTP To HTTPS
HTTPS is an encoded form of HTTP which is the most widely used protocol for sending data through the world wide web. The vast majority of today’s world wide web traffic uses HTTPS to maintain privacy, identification and security. HTTPS prevents attackers from capturing and interfering with the interaction between the server and the browser.
Almost all of the benefits of HTTPS can be traced back to SEO.
Elevate your SEO
Since August 2014, HTTPS has been a certified, official ranking indicator in Google search engine evaluation sites. Implementing HTTPS will provide your website with a slight boost in Google ranks, which will almost certainly rise in the future.
Because Google has to recalculate all of the SEO signals, you may see a momentary negative side effect while switching.
Therefore, if you perform everything correctly throughout the move, you should be safe in the long run.
All HTTP websites are classified as ‘not safe’ by Google Chrome
This is a crucial date. If one has had a webpage and their customers discover that it is not protected, it will erode the customer’s faith in the company. As a result, you can assume to see information that their HTTP website is not safe.
An HTTP website can be easily hacked, even by a kid
If you have an HTTP website and your customers are accessing it in open spaces, anyone including a 12 year old can hack it. If a hacker is on the same wifi network as you he or she has complete insight into all the HTTP data you send and receive.
He/she can see specific information you’re looking at, what kind of movies you are watching on the internet, what articles you are reading and so on. He/she can disrupt your login details and insert dangerous software into your system.