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11,909 sitesUnited Kingdom

HTTPS & SSL certificate statistics in the UK

HTTPS adoption, redirects, TLS versions and certificate authorities.

99%
HTTPS homepage
11,764 / 11,909
88%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect
10,107 / 11,520
96%
TLS 1.3
24,932 / 25,890
54%
HSTS
6,299 / 11,764

Certificate authorities

  1. 1 Let's Encrypt 62% 16,017
  2. 2 Google Trust Services 23% 6,013
  3. 3 Amazon 3.9% 1,022
  4. 4 DigiCert 3.8% 984
  5. 5 Sectigo 2.9% 750
  6. 6 GlobalSign 1.3% 326
  7. 7 GoDaddy / Starfield 1.1% 278
  8. 8 Other 0.3% 69
  9. 9 Cloudflare 0.2% 41
  10. 10 SSL.com <0.1% 25
  11. 11 Entrust <0.1% 20
  12. 12 Trustico <0.1% 4

Share of 25,890 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUnited KingdomGlobalNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
HTTPS homepage 99%98%99%99%99%99%99%
HTTP → HTTPS redirect 88%85%91%85%88%65%82%
TLS 1.3 96%89%96%89%90%77%89%
Let's Encrypt certificate 62%29%66%45%41%25%42%
HSTS 54%53%54%40%50%33%44%
HSTS preload 14%17%16%11%15%5%15%
Invalid certificate 1.3%2.7%1.9%2.8%3.6%4.6%3.6%
Certificate expires in < 14 days 0.4%1.1%0.5%0.9%1.4%1.5%1%

Certificate lifetime

0.1%≤ 31
87%32–90
<0.1%91–100
9.1%101–200
3.7%201–398
0%399–800
0%> 800

Days · Share of 25,558 sites in the sample.

TLS version

  1. 1 TLSv1.3 96% 24,932
  2. 2 TLSv1.2 3.7% 956
  3. 3 — <0.1% 2

Share of 25,890 sites in the sample.

Cipher suites

  1. 1 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 88% 22,843
  2. 2 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 7.8% 2,030
  3. 3 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 1.7% 453
  4. 4 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 1.2% 310
  5. 5 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 0.5% 138
  6. 6 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 0.2% 59
  7. 7 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 <0.1% 19
  8. 8 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 <0.1% 18

Share of 25,890 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 11,909 sites · United Kingdom · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology

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