Firefox Forces HTTPS Ignore Settings (2025-03)
Firefox Forces HTTPS
2025-03-11 Firefox v136 now forces HTTPS, even if you have https upgrade turned off in browser settings.
How many sites don't have https (2025-10-21)
insta censor 22 million websites.
According to recent web technology surveys, approximately **88.6% of websites** use HTTPS by default as of October 2025. This implies that **11.4% do not**, a figure consistent with other 2024-2025 data showing 12.4% of sites lacking valid SSL/TLS encryption.
There are roughly **1.1-1.3 billion websites** registered globally, but only about **192-200 million** are considered active (i.e., regularly updated and receiving traffic). Applying the 11-12% non-HTTPS rate to active sites yields an estimated **22-24 million websites** without HTTPS.
Note that these figures are based on samples from major crawlers like W3Techs (top 10 million sites) and may vary slightly for less popular or niche domains. HTTPS adoption continues to rise, driven by browser warnings and search engine preferences, but legacy or low-traffic sites remain a common holdout.