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Confirm your entire site runs over HTTPS

30 min Impact: high ✓ Manual completion — a permanent stone

Confirming your entire site runs over HTTPS — every page, every subdomain, no exceptions — closes the basic trust and security gap that undermines every other credibility signal, since browsers actively warn visitors away from any page that isn't secure.

This is foundational infrastructure trust — a single non-HTTPS page anywhere on an otherwise-secure site is a real, visible red flag to any visitor who encounters it.

The full picture

Confirming your entire site runs over HTTPS represents comprehensive verification extending the foundational HTTPS enforcement discussed extensively in earlier security work — this legacy-tier check specifically confirms complete, sitewide coverage with no remaining gaps across your entire site's full page inventory.

This comprehensive verification matters because partial HTTPS implementation, with even isolated pages or sections still accessible over HTTP, undermines the complete security guarantee comprehensive HTTPS enforcement is meant to provide — genuine thoroughness here, checking your complete site rather than a sample, ensures no gaps remain.

This represents foundational infrastructure that numerous other elements throughout your broader strategy depend on — from the trust signals search engines specifically evaluate to the technical prerequisites for HSTS and other security headers discussed elsewhere, comprehensive HTTPS coverage provides the solid foundation this broader work requires.

This verification deserves periodic repetition as your site continues evolving, ensuring new content or sections added over time maintain this same comprehensive HTTPS coverage rather than assuming initial comprehensive implementation automatically persists without ongoing verification as your site continues to grow and change.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Check every major section and subdomain
    Not just the homepage — blog, checkout, subdomains for tools or apps, everything.
  2. 2
    Confirm HTTP redirects to HTTPS everywhere
    Not just that HTTPS works, but that plain HTTP requests are actively redirected, not left to load insecurely.
  3. 3
    Check for mixed content
    An HTTPS page loading even one resource over HTTP breaks the full security guarantee.
  4. 4
    Re-verify after any infrastructure change
    New subdomains or third-party integrations can introduce gaps that weren't there before.

Common mistakes

How you will know it is done

Every page and subdomain on the site loads exclusively over HTTPS with no mixed content.

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