Why Your Tech Website Needs to Be HTTPS Now

As computer businesses, we have been training our customers to look out for the “little lock”, as well as other indicators of a legitimate website. Starting this month (July 2018), the Google Chrome web browser will start marking all non-HTTPS websites as “not secure”.

Why Should I Care?

With Google Chrome making up nearly 58% of all web browsers accessing the internet, it’s an important issue worth paying attention to.

Google has been encouraging websites to enable HTTPS since way back in 2014, and lot of websites were quick to enable it because Google ranked secured websites higher than non-secured ones.

The technical benefits of encryption are obvious, but there are also good business reasons as well. While most computer businesses offer similar services and pricing on their websites, trust is an important factor when deciding on who to call.

With Google Chrome saying your website is insecure, most people associate that with their data being stolen or their computer getting hacked. You will most likely see a higher bounce rate as you scare visitors away, as well as a hit to conversions as people don’t feel confident entering any personal data into your contact form.

How to Enable HTTPS on Your Website

Enabling HTTPS on your website does take a few steps. First you need to purchase an SSL certificate from a certificate issuer. Not all SSL certificates are the same as some browsers don’t trust all issuers. Here at Technibble we used PositiveSSL.com because most web browsers trust the certificates they generate. While you can get free SSL certificates, they expire quickly resulting in more work for you.

Since there is such a wide variety of webhosts and control panel software, the instructions to enable HTTPS will differ from host to host.

Try searching for something like: “How to setup SSL on “ and look for the appropriate knowledgebase article. They may even recommend a certain issuer and be able to offer some sort of discount.

If your time is too valuable to mess around with setting up SSL certificates, there are many web developer services who will do it for you inexpensively.

With a new HTTPS label on your website, you show your customers that you take their data security seriously. If you haven’t setup HTTPS yet, the time to do it is now.