> And because 85 percent of those sites never had HTTPS before, it's already significantly boosted the total fraction of sites that are encrypted on the web as a whole. Based on numbers Mozilla gathers from Firefox users, encrypted sites now account for more than 42 percent of page visits, compared with 38.5 percent just before Let's Encrypt launched. And Aas says that number is still growing at close to one percent a month.

(I work on Let's Encrypt.)

Thank you so much.

Thank you for all the work you do. It is a great service you have given the world at large.

1: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2623829/authentication/wea... 2: https://www.pcworld.com/article/249242/verisign_hacked_what_...

Context: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/broadening-hsts-to-s...

DV certs though ... largely felt like a scam to me, back when I learned how they work in the early days of the web.

Since Lets Encrypt, every last thing I put on the Internet leverages SSL. Prior to Lets Encrypt, I had purchased a single SSL cert, ever, because I don't have the money to throw at every little thing I like to create and play with.

Admittedly the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but assuming I'm not special, my suspicion is "very much yes".

For my personal stuff, it is both. I paid for a single cert on my little server, but it hosted a handful of domains. It wasn't practical to secure the rest with only a single IP or to expensive to pile them all on a single cert. Let's Encrypt replaced one paid cert and secured 5 other domains that I otherwise wouldn't have.

This bled into work where we replaced all paid certs(except wildcards, coming soon) and secured hundreds of domains were not before.