If you’re transitioning to HTTPS now and you’re getting a grey/yellow lock although you have no mixed content, it could be a problem with your SSL certificate. Modern browsers are currently phasing out support for certificates using “SHA1” as a hashing algorithm (technical term) for security reasons (Too the point where, sometime in the future, a SHA1 certificate will display a red “insecure” warning), so you’ll want to check with your SSL provider that your new certificate (including the whole “certificate chain”) is using SHA2 or newer. Just something I wanted to get off my chest, since I ran into problems with this before. This is a great check list. I’ve also done this a number of times and agree with your cautious words on it (being a bit of a pain to set up right).

My only comment is regarding Media Temple issued certificates. They are not issued from your own domain and will throw up warnings to the end user. This warning basically asks if the user wants to trust your site.

It makes your sites look like spam. I had to remove the certificate because of this, but despite many, many communications with MT, some sites were still getting random certificate warnings several years on – to the huge detriment of site traffic. So, the only point I have to disagree on, is using the Media Temple supplied certificate (I think they come from GoDaddy). Officially, MT provide no support when things go catastrophically wrong, and there is actually nothing in the control panel or Account Centre that can fix it – it has to be done in server command line. Bear in mind Google have said: “We’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it’s only a very lightweight signal — affecting fewer than 1% of global queries.” Perhaps I’m the only one to worry about: 1) Exhausting the limited number of remaining IP addresses (OK I admit IPv6 will fix this). 2) The increase in the amount of processing a webserver will be required to do to serve ALL sites over HTTPS.

3) Webmasters forgetting to renew SSL certs on time and destroying their traffic due to “this site is unsafe” warnings in visitors’ browsers. OK this shouldn’t happen on a busy ecommerce site but I guarantee it will happen on some smaller WordPress sites that don’t really need to serve content over SSL. 1) Most modern browsers now support so a separate IP address won’t be a necessity either.

The holdout browsers mostly include older versions of Android, IE on Windows XP, and older versions of Safari on Mac OS X 10.5). 2) Depending on the site, there’s not really any additional. It always amazes me when google says jump, people do it, regardless of whatever it is. If someone is having problems ranking, don’t go straight to https or the latest google signal—start by writing better content and driving traffic to it first. IMO unless you run an e-commerce site, it’s not really worth the effort for a small blog to go fully HTTPS (yet) but this article does a good of detailing the steps involved.

I just wanted to say that this is a great writeup, very comprehensive and definitely something I’ll keep in mind for a move to SSL, which I’ve been doing a lot lately esp for WP. That in mind, I’m surprised of your switch. I saw a lot of sites switch after Google’s announcement a few months ago, now a lot of folks are switching back. It doesn’t seem like a bad decision, but I think the pros are a little exaggerated in this case. Most site owners who switched haven’t seen a rankings increase, but it is still early so we shall see. Again, very comprehensive writeup quite possibly one of the best I’ve seen yet.

Why webmaster should using HTTPS? Because HTTPS is especially important over unencrypted networks (such as Wi-Fi), as anyone on the same local network can “packet sniff” and discover sensitive information. How many times have you accessed a site on an open network and got unexpected ads? When you serve your website content securely via HTTPS, you are guarantee that nobody will alter how they are received by users.

If you’re serious about doing business online, you need SSL. It’s the best way to protect user data and defend against identity theft. Many customers will refuse to do business with a website that doesn’t have an SSL certificate.

Displaying your SSL Site Seal tells customers they can shop or use a website with confidence, knowing they are protected. Before I get all negative, I do want to thank Chris for a well-researched article. I definitely plan to move my own personal site to HTTPS ASAP. ButIs anyone thinking about user experience here? Sorry not to join the chorus of undiluted approval, but how can I ignore the horrific, scary user experience that awaits any visitor who clicks a link generated from a protocol-agnostic href (such as “//www.example.com”) if 1) my site is served by HTTPS and 2) example.com is not? I mean, have you guys even seen that screen? It’s not pleasant.

It will make the visitor assume the worst about that other site, and by association, about my site since I sent them there. Oh, I know what you’re going to say: just drop all links to all insecure sites. Well, in a lot of cases, that’s just not practical yet.

After all, CSS-Tricks was insecure until, like, a month ago. Any solutions, besides everybody just moving to HTTPS at the same time? The horrific, scary user experience that awaits any visitor who clicks a link generated from a protocol-agnostic href (such as “//www.example.com”) if 1) my site is served by HTTPS and 2) example.com is not? I mean, have you guys even seen that screen? It’s not pleasant. I haven’t seen it!

What browsers does it happen in? I just tried to replicate that scenario in Chrome but it didn’t seem to do anything. I know there are a lot of browsers out there, and I can do testing, but I’ve literally never seen it before so I figured it would be best to get more info from you first. I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree on that one. Just YESTERDAY, my SSL stuff failed on this site. I had to go back to HTTP for a bit for the site to work at all. If all those articles has HTTPS links in them, they would have been broken because they are hosted right here, the same site where HTTPS was broken.

If those images had hard-coded HTTPS images in them, they would have been broken even when the site was on HTTP. I know what Paul is saying, but I think it’s slightly more complicated. I think if your FORCE HTTPS, protocol relative is fine. But if you offer your site either way and are super confident your SSL will always work 100% (hard bet), then hard coding HTTPS links might be smart.

I am getting conflicting information on what the iOS iCloud Photos 'Download and Keep Originals' setting does. It does not seem to download the original versions of my Photos from my iCloud library. I want to force all of the full-res photos in my iCloud Photos library to be downloaded to my iPad so I can view them offline. I have 'Download and Keep Originals' set but only the low-res thumbnails are on the device. If I click on the photo while connected to the Internet it downloads the full-res photo. I am trying this on an iPad Pro with 256GB of storage. My Photo library takes about 70GB on my Mac (9,000 photos) and I have 150GB free on the iPad.

Thank you LACAllen! D espite what Apple Support told me you are correct.

Eventually the photos are copied from iCloud to your iOS device if the 'Download and Keep Originals' setting is on. I contacted Apple Support and their response was that 'Download and Keep Originals' only applied to photos taken on the device. They maintained that this setting would cause the full-res version of the photo to stay on the device and be uploaded to iCloud. The support person I spoke to seemed very certain of this. This is not the case. I have a fairly large Photo Library (12,000 photos; about 70GB) that I finally converted from iPhoto to Photos.

I tried the migration one year ago when Photos first came out on the Mac. I had so many problems I reverted back to iPhoto and continued to use iTunes to sync all my photos to my iPad and iPhone. However, the feature differences between the no-longer-updated iPhoto app the new Photos app on the Mac was beginning to be a problem. After paying for the iCloud 200GB storage upgrade and uploading the pictures from my Mac into iCloud, I switched my iPad Photos settings over to iCloud and 'Download and Keep Originals' ( Settings iCloud Photos iCloud Photo Library). After about 12 hours I checked the iPad and every picture I randomly picked to view was still low-res (the high-res version would download when you opened the low-res version). I assumed that the full-res versions were not downloading.

However, this morning I checked and found that the pictures were indeed almost done downloading! I have since discovered a couple ways to check the progress of the downloads. One way is to go to Settings iCloud Photos. You may see an 'Uploading xxx Photos.' Message when it is downloading: The problem is iCloud seems to trickle the photos down and suspends the downloads periodically. Most of the time this message just says 'Last updated at.' I am sure Apple carefully throttles the downloads so their servers do not get overwhelmed.

A more accurate way to see the progress of the downloads is to temporarily, and carefully, turn off the 'iCloud Photo Library' setting. The confirmation message that comes up shows you how many photos and/or videos have not be downloaded yet.

In my case the number was down to 45. It was basically done (I started with 12,000): Of course, you need to be careful with this.

Be sure to tap on Cancel! If you tap on 'Remove from iPad' the photos downloaded so far will be deleted from the iPad and you would need to start the downloads all over again. I hope this helps others. I wrote this up because I could not find any accurate info and there seems to be a lot of questions and confusion about it. I will update this with additional information if anything changes. Thank you LACAllen!

D espite what Apple Support told me you are correct. Eventually the photos are copied from iCloud to your iOS device if the 'Download and Keep Originals' setting is on.

I contacted Apple Support and their response was that 'Download and Keep Originals' only applied to photos taken on the device. They maintained that this setting would cause the full-res version of the photo to stay on the device and be uploaded to iCloud. The support person I spoke to seemed very certain of this. This is not the case.

I have a fairly large Photo Library (12,000 photos; about 70GB) that I finally converted from iPhoto to Photos. I tried the migration one year ago when Photos first came out on the Mac. I had so many problems I reverted back to iPhoto and continued to use iTunes to sync all my photos to my iPad and iPhone.

However, the feature differences between the no-longer-updated iPhoto app the new Photos app on the Mac was beginning to be a problem. After paying for the iCloud 200GB storage upgrade and uploading the pictures from my Mac into iCloud, I switched my iPad Photos settings over to iCloud and 'Download and Keep Originals' ( Settings iCloud Photos iCloud Photo Library).

After about 12 hours I checked the iPad and every picture I randomly picked to view was still low-res (the high-res version would download when you opened the low-res version). I assumed that the full-res versions were not downloading. However, this morning I checked and found that the pictures were indeed almost done downloading!

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I have since discovered a couple ways to check the progress of the downloads. One way is to go to Settings iCloud Photos. You may see an 'Uploading xxx Photos.' Message when it is downloading: The problem is iCloud seems to trickle the photos down and suspends the downloads periodically. Most of the time this message just says 'Last updated at.' I am sure Apple carefully throttles the downloads so their servers do not get overwhelmed.

A more accurate way to see the progress of the downloads is to temporarily, and carefully, turn off the 'iCloud Photo Library' setting. The confirmation message that comes up shows you how many photos and/or videos have not be downloaded yet. In my case the number was down to 45. It was basically done (I started with 12,000): Of course, you need to be careful with this.

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Be sure to tap on Cancel! If you tap on 'Remove from iPad' the photos downloaded so far will be deleted from the iPad and you would need to start the downloads all over again.

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