Run a full SSL Labs scan and resolve all warnings

30-60 min Impact: high Effort: medium ✓ Manual completion

A full SSL Labs scan checks far more than just whether HTTPS works — protocol versions, cipher strength, certificate chain completeness, and known vulnerabilities — giving a comprehensive letter grade for your actual HTTPS configuration quality.

A site can have HTTPS working with no visible browser warnings while still carrying a genuinely weak configuration underneath — this is the tool that surfaces exactly what a browser padlock alone does not tell you.

How to do it

1

Run the scan

Enter your domain at SSL Labs and let the full test complete, it checks many configuration angles at once.
2

Review every warning, not just the final grade

The overall letter grade is useful, but the specific flagged issues are what actually need fixing.
3

Address issues in order of severity

Certificate chain problems and weak protocols typically matter more than minor cipher suite ordering issues.
4

Re-scan until clean

Keep iterating until the scan shows no unresolved warnings.

Common mistakes

This overlaps with several other checks (TLS versions, certificate validity) — running this scan can efficiently surface multiple related issues at once instead of checking each individually.

How you will know it is done

SSL Labs shows an A or A+ grade with no unresolved warnings.

Tools that help

SSL Labs Test ↗

The comprehensive standard for HTTPS configuration testing.

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