Introduction: Today, 10th February 2020, any website should be secured even if it doesn’t provide any personal information that doesn’t pose any risk. The main reason to secure your website with SSL certificates is to assure people they are on the site they believe they are. Most browsers will today tell you, that you are on an insecure site just because it’s not encrypted.

    Google Chrome v.80 telling you it’s not a safe site simply because it’s not encrypted.

    But there’s actually even more reasons why it’s a good idea to encrypt sites so they show a nice padlock and you are redirected to https://…

    Here’s a list of reasons why you should have an encrypted website with certificates

    1. You do not loose traffic because visitors are shown a “Not Safe” website in their browsers.
    2. Your websites have a nice padlock in the URL and people “feel” more secure.
    3. All traffic to/from the site is now encrypted and reduces person-in-the-middle attacks.
    4. It will actually make your website faster as newer http protocols will use multiplexing and deliver the website in multiple streams to the visitors. This requires a secure connection.
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