Google claims web page is more safer than it was a year ago

The constant effort of the tech Goliath, Google is proving out to be effective in securing the online world. Google has been securing apps and services by moving to HTTPS and according to its latest report, the web is a lot more secure than it was just a year and a half ago.

In its Transparency Report on HTTPS Usage, Google reports that nearly two-thirds of pages loaded on Chrome OS devices are HTTPS sites, followed closely by Mac, Linux, and Windows. It showed a healthy rise in pages being loaded over HTTPS between April 2015 and October 2016.

HTTPS, a communications protocol that was traditionally used by security-conscious bodies such as banks, with the added encryption throwing an extra layer of security atop the traditional HTTP protocol. protecting traffic between the browser and web server against man-in-the-middle attacks.

“As the remainder of the web transitions to HTTPS, we’ll continue working to ensure that migrating to HTTPS is a no-brainer, providing business benefit beyond increased security,” Google explained, in a blog post.

Other companies have also increasingly adopted HTTPS, from Twitter, which switched it on by default in 2012, to Wikipedia and Microsoft’s Bing, which both enabled it by default last year.