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11,322 sitesUnited Kingdom

HTTPS & SSL certificate statistics in the UK

HTTPS adoption, redirects, TLS versions and certificate authorities.

99%
HTTPS homepage
11,186 / 11,322
89%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect
9,385 / 10,557
97%
TLS 1.3
27,814 / 28,681
50%
HSTS
5,598 / 11,186

Certificate authorities

  1. 1 Let's Encrypt 64% 18,245
  2. 2 Google Trust Services 23% 6,731
  3. 3 Amazon 3.5% 1,002
  4. 4 DigiCert 3.4% 976
  5. 5 Sectigo 2.5% 712
  6. 6 GlobalSign 1.1% 303
  7. 7 GoDaddy / Starfield 0.9% 266
  8. 8 Other 0.2% 64
  9. 9 Cloudflare 0.1% 37
  10. 10 SSL.com <0.1% 26
  11. 11 Entrust <0.1% 19
  12. 12 Trustico <0.1% 3

Share of 28,681 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUnited KingdomGlobalNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
HTTPS homepage 99%99%99%99%99%99%99%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect 89%85%92%86%88%65%82%
TLS 1.3 97%90%97%90%90%78%89%
Let's Encrypt certificate 64%29%67%45%41%25%40%
HSTS 50%53%52%40%49%33%45%
HSTS preload 14%17%16%12%15%5%16%
Invalid certificate 1%2.4%1.5%2.9%3.4%4.3%3.3%
Certificate expires in < 14 days 0.3%1.1%0.4%1.1%1.2%1.3%1.2%

Certificate lifetime

0.1%≤ 31
89%32–90
<0.1%91–100
8.5%101–200
2.7%201–398
0%399–800
0%> 800

Days · Share of 28,390 sites in the sample.

TLS version

  1. 1 TLSv1.3 97% 27,814
  2. 2 TLSv1.2 3% 865
  3. 3 — <0.1% 2

Share of 28,681 sites in the sample.

Cipher suites

  1. 1 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 90% 25,807
  2. 2 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 6.8% 1,947
  3. 3 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 1.4% 407
  4. 4 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 1% 275
  5. 5 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 0.5% 131
  6. 6 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 0.2% 60
  7. 7 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 <0.1% 20
  8. 8 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 <0.1% 17

Share of 28,681 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 11,322 sites · United Kingdom · updated 13 Nov 2026 · Methodology

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