🆚 HSTS vs. Redirect
- 📈 HSTS is three times more popular than Redirect.
- 🌎 HSTS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Redirect is more popular in Palau, Grenada, and Mali.
Type
About
The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) standard is a web security mechanism that ensures a user's browser always connects to a website using HTTPS, preventing insecure HTTP access.
It is enforced through the Strict-Transport-Security response header, which defines a policy duration, can apply to all subdomains, automatically upgrades HTTP requests to HTTPS, and protects against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking.
Redirect is a web redirection technique that automatically sends visitors from one domain to another instead of displaying content on the original website.
It is typically implemented using 
HTTP 3xx status codes, 
HTML meta refresh tags, or 
JavaScript redirects.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vatican in the Networking category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Switzerland in the Networking category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Networking category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iceland in the Networking category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Isle of Man in the Networking category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Grenada in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Palau in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belize in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Liechtenstein in the Networking category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
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