You might have noticed a small green lock at the URL bar of your browser whenever you visit some websites like Google, Facebook or your bank website etc.

This means that HTTPS protocols are enabled for this website and all your communication is encrypted, making your browsing more secture.

This is important when you are doing things like logging into your secure account, bank’s website or submitting your credit card information to an online store.

Folks at Google are always ahead of others, so when HTTPS became mainstream they’ve decided to move towards HSTS ─ HTTP Strict Transport Security.

HSTS, What does it Do?

What it actually does is preventing people from accidentally navigating to HTTP URLs by automatically converting insecure HTTP URLs into secure HTTPS URLs.

Google is looking to deploy the changes as soon as possible, but there’s still some additional work to be done before it’s ready to go.

HSTS is now active for Google’s domain www.Google.com, however, in the meantime. It will be extended to additional domains and Google products soon.

Users might still navigate to these HTTP URLs by manually typing a protocol-less or HTTP URL in the address bar, or by following HTTP links from other websites but Google will always be sending you to secure websites from now on.