Why migrate a website to HTTPS?

Switch to HTTPS easily and smoothly

It’s a term that has come up very frequently in recent years in the web world, yet it remains unclear for many website owners. HTTPS, which adds “Secure” to the “Hypertext Transfer Protocol,” is, as its name suggests, a new version of the connection protocol used by all web services to access websites, this time dedicated to security.

HTTPS, SEO, Google, security: your questions, our answers

Initially designed for e-commerce sites to prevent counterfeiting and ensure reliability for users at the time of purchase—symbolized by a small green padlock in every web browser near the URL bar—HTTPS has become as important through its technical provisions as through other related factors.

Google, the undisputed leader in the search and web advertising market, has insisted for several years that more and more sites migrate to HTTPS, offering SEO “bonus” points—or rather, issuing penalties to sites that do not comply with this “new” standard.

Even though many web players have long highlighted the benefits of HTTPS, its relative complexity of implementation and non-mandatory nature long acted as a brake on its large-scale development. The demand for HTTPS is becoming increasingly urgent, if not increasingly burdensome for site owners, without the steps to complete it successfully always being clear.

Here is an infographic to help you see more clearly the stakes of HTTPS migration, its challenges, and our solutions.