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Up to 100 retained publisher events per page for 18a1d1c8e259a55c285b6887b0c5fe1ded165271b7c56e46f82fa2f1e7c076d2. Withdrawals and unavailable references remain attributed to their publishers.

intelligence_src_823f7b237762257237

observed · 2026-10-12 12:09:04 UTC

Our goal with Let’s Encrypt is to get the Web to 100% HTTPS. We’d like to give a quick progress update. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our active certificates cover more than 7 million unique domains. A couple of different factors have contributed heavily to this growth. The first is large-scale deployments from companies such as OVH, WordPress.com, Akamai, Shopify, Dreamhost, and Bitly. The second is our ability to serve individual sites globally with a focus on ease-of-use. If we’re going to get to 100% HTTPS we need to reach the “long tail” of the Web, which is in many ways more challenging due to the number of parties involved and widely varying degrees of technical competency. Our progress is accelerating the growth of HTTPS on the Web in general. When we launched in December of 2015, 39.5% of page loads on the Web used HTTPS (as measured by Firefox Telemetry). By mid-April 2016 that number was up to 42% and today it stands at 45%. This is an incredible rate of change for the Web. We’re r

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intelligence_src_823f7b237762257237

observed · 2026-10-12 12:09:04 UTC

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