Google Chrome Started Checking Your Website is Secured or Not

In the news, Google Chrome one of the most popular web browser has been started marking HTTP sites as not secure websites. Chrome will mark all plain HTTP sites as “not secure.” Google has already given webmasters and publishers 6 months notice of this upcoming updates, and it’s already rolled out yesterday July 24.

When a user open a web-page then Instead of the tiny “i” icon for HTTP URLs, there will be a warning in the address bar shows that the site is “Not Secure.” Here is what it looks currently before users upgrade to Chrome 68. Note, most of those users who download Chrome are automatically set for browser updates and that’s why they are planning to be upgraded to Chrome 68 automatically in the future.

It is highly recommended to move your website to HTTPS URLs via switching SSL Implement and be secure, even though your website doesn’t ask for payment info, logins or alternative private data. depending upon the metrics of a website and scope of the project, a migration from HTTP to HTTPS will be quite an undertaking.

This “Not secure” warning is a part of Google’s recommendation for making safer web browsing experience. This is an ongoing effort that started back when Google made HTTPS as a ranking factor in year 2014.

Now, Google Chrome is the 2nd web browser that implement a warning for non-HTTPS sites, with Mozilla Firefox being the first web browser.

Currently, other popular web browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari  still don’t show any warnings for non-HTTPS sites.

That’s the reason, you must have to protect your website via switching to SSL and make’s your site secured and encrypted. So you don’t have to worried about it if you already switched to SSL.