{"id":2317,"date":"2016-03-17T01:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/17\/google-says-77-percent-of-its-traffic-is-encrypted\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T01:17:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:17:27","slug":"google-says-77-percent-of-its-traffic-is-encrypted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/17\/google-says-77-percent-of-its-traffic-is-encrypted\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says 77 percent of its traffic is encrypted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google_encryption\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzE2L2ZiL0dvb2dsZV9lbmNyLjVlZDhiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/fe53a198\/19a\/Google_encryption.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Google+says+77+percent+of+its+traffic+is+encrypted&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F16%2Fa-quarter-of-google-s-internet-traffic-still-isn-t-encrypted%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F16%2Fa-quarter-of-google-s-internet-traffic-still-isn-t-encrypted%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For years, Internet giants, including <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/08\/07\/google-prioritize-secure-sites\/\">Google<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/01\/27\/facebook-https\/\">Facebook<\/a>, have warned about the importance of using HTTPS, a secure Internet protocol that encrypts your traffic and makes it a lot harder for anyone to eavesdrop on your communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So where do we stand on the HTTPS front in 2016? According to a new, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/https\/?hl=en\">HTTPS-focused section<\/a> of Google&#8217;s Transparency Report, first published on Tuesday, Google itself is doing pretty good. Around 77 percent of requests to Google&#8217;s servers are currently encrypted, up from 50 percent in January 2014 \u2014 although it&#8217;s worth noting that these figures do not include YouTube traffic. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/16\/a-quarter-of-google-s-internet-traffic-still-isn-t-encrypted\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/transparency-report\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Transparency Report<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/https\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Https<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/encryption\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Encryption<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Google<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1458147965' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1458147965'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/qvqlDAflC6g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Internet giants, including Google\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook, have warned about the importance of using HTTPS, a secure Internet protocol that encrypts your traffic and makes it a lot harder for anyone to eavesdrop on your communications.\u00a0 So where do we stand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/17\/google-says-77-percent-of-its-traffic-is-encrypted\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}