{"id":303,"date":"2015-07-24T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenhosting.com.au\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:32:47","slug":"website-owners-fail-to-make-ssl-their-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenhosting.com.au\/blog\/website-owners-fail-to-make-ssl-their-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Site owners fail to make SSL their business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses are moving\u00a0to safeguard\u00a0their websites but overlooking SSL as part of their online security strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The newly released State of the Web Report by website backup service provider CodeGuard reveals Wordfence Security made it to the top five list of installed plug-ins for customers surveyed during the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>However, just 7.68% of sites had HTTPS by default \u2013 a result that Codeguard attributes to SSL certification\u00a0historically proving too costly for individuals and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to see that increase significantly over time,\u201d the report states, pointing out that obtaining and installing SSL certificates is easier and cheaper than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Codeguard also found \u201csome business owners just don\u2019t care about mobile,\u201d with 51% of surveyed websites being mobile ready and escaping penalization in search engine rankings on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>This was up slightly on the first quarter report findings, when 49% of sites had responsive design.<\/p>\n<p>Of course\u00a0search engine optimization is a priority for website owners, who\u00a0rely mostly\u00a0on WordPress SEO, Google XML Sitemaps and All In One SEO Pack to boost traffic to their sites.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, content management system WordPress continues to dominate the market, increasing its share by 3.4% to 82.2% in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"__wp-temp-img-id\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zenhosting.com.au\/images\/Wordpress-dominates-market.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Codeguard notes, WordPress has made giant strides in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 2011 it was estimated that 20-25% of new sites were built using WordPress (<a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress-stats\/\">https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress-stats\/<\/a>), and industry data now is similar to ours with estimates that 3\/4 new websites are built with WordPress,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWordPress is clearly dominating the content management space and we expect this to continue for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joomla (7.4%) and Drupal (5.5%) adoption rates were up slightly on the first quarter, while Concrete5, ExpressionEngine and Adobe Business Catalyst lost some ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more interesting report findings, including website stats, popular technologies and social media trends, be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.codeguard.com\/codeguard-state-of-the-web-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the Codeguard report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Small businesses are moving\u00a0to safeguard\u00a0their websites but overlooking SSL as part of their online security strategy. 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