Chrome Warnings
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 4:09 am
As of July 24, 2018, Chrome versions 68 and above began marking all non-HTTPS sites as "Not Secure." Regardless of whether they collect data or not. Here's why HTTPS is more important than ever!
Chrome not secure website
This is especially important if your site gets most of its traffic from Chrome. You can look in Google Analytics under Audience under Browser & OS to see what percentage of your WordPress site's traffic is coming from Google Chrome . Google makes it much clearer to visitors that your WordPress site may not be running on a secure connection.
Performance
Thanks to a protocol called HTTP/2, in many advertising database cases those who run properly optimized sites over HTTPS can even see a speed improvement . HTTP/2 requires HTTPS due to browser support. The performance improvements come from a variety of reasons, such as HTTP/2 supporting more efficient multiplexing, parallelism, Huffman-coded HPACK compression, the ALPN extension , and server nudging. And with TLS 1.3, HTTPS connections are even faster. Kinsta supports TLS 1.3 on all of our servers and on our Kinsta CDN network . Thinking about HTTPS? Check out our detailed WordPress migration guide to HTTPS to get you started, and learn more in our TLS vs. SSL comparison. To ensure a secure, encrypted connection between you and the server when
Chrome not secure website
This is especially important if your site gets most of its traffic from Chrome. You can look in Google Analytics under Audience under Browser & OS to see what percentage of your WordPress site's traffic is coming from Google Chrome . Google makes it much clearer to visitors that your WordPress site may not be running on a secure connection.
Performance
Thanks to a protocol called HTTP/2, in many advertising database cases those who run properly optimized sites over HTTPS can even see a speed improvement . HTTP/2 requires HTTPS due to browser support. The performance improvements come from a variety of reasons, such as HTTP/2 supporting more efficient multiplexing, parallelism, Huffman-coded HPACK compression, the ALPN extension , and server nudging. And with TLS 1.3, HTTPS connections are even faster. Kinsta supports TLS 1.3 on all of our servers and on our Kinsta CDN network . Thinking about HTTPS? Check out our detailed WordPress migration guide to HTTPS to get you started, and learn more in our TLS vs. SSL comparison. To ensure a secure, encrypted connection between you and the server when