Make sure your page is SSL certified

An SSL certificate helps guarantee your website is secure for users. When ranking pages, Google prioritize user experience and safety, so making sure you have an SSL certificate is a necessity for your SEO.

Why should you use Morningscore's SSL checker?

Google prioritizes the safety of it's users. One of the ways it does this is by checking pages for an SSL certificate. With Morningscore's SSL checker, you can make sure your page will pass Google's SSL check.

Ensure the safety of your website's users

An SSL certificate tells Google that the visitors of your website are safe. An SSL certificate ensures, the data being sent to your site stays between your site and your visitors.

Stay on top of your SEO with Morningscore

Morningscore is an all in one SEO tool, and the SSL checker is just one of our many features. With Morningscore you'll have a comprehensive overview of your SEO.

Our intuitive interface makes SEO easy

Morningscore's easy to use interface makes finding the SEO data you're looking for easy. You won't need a PhD in computer science to find our SSL checker.

Get an easy overview of your website's health with Morningscore

Check if your site has an SSL certificate in just 5 steps

First enter your website

Enter your email address

Go to "health" and click scan

Scroll down and click "technical"

Check if your have an SSL certificate

Enter your site to use the SSL chekcer and see your SSL certificate

Does Google think your website is secure enough?

Morningscore's SSL checker can tell you

One of the many things Google prioritizes when ranking pages is the user experience the pages provide. One aspect of the user experience Google values is the safety of the page, where whether the page has an SSL certificate is a factor that is looked at.

SSL certificates increase the safety of your page, by encrypting the data that gets sent between you and your visitors so it won't be accessed by anybody else. Having an SSL certificate is not just a benefit for your SEO, but also your website's safety, which can increase your customers trust in your website.

An SSL certificate can however also require some work, by making it necessary to make sure your links are leading to the HTTPS (SSL certified) version of the pages.

With Morningscore's SSL checker you will easily be able to find out if you have an SSL certificate, but you can also easily find out what pages contain links to HTTP (non-HTTPS) sites. That way Morningscore makes it not only easy to see if you have an SSL certificate, but also check if it's set up right.

FAQ

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Do you want to know more about Morningscore's SSL checker?

What is an SSL certificate?

An SSL certificate is a safety measure that can be implemented on your website, which protects the data sent by visitors to your page, against anybody trying to intercept it. It does this by encrypting your data, so it won't be readable by anybody trying to access.

Meanwhile the intended recipient's browser has a key, that can remove the encryption from the data. That way your website and your visitors can communicate with each other safely, without worrying about anybody else seeing what is being sent.

Why are SSL certificates useful for SEO?

When ranking pages Google look at many different factors. One of the things Google looks at is the user experience when visiting a site, here the websites safety is one of the factors, that can affect how it ranks.

If your website has implemented SSL, it sends a clear message to Google, that you prioritize the safety of your users data. Because of this implementing SSL on your website can help you improve your SEO. If you aren't sure about whether or not your website has an SSL certificate you can check it with Morningscore's SSL checker

What kind of changes will I have to make on my site after getting an SSL certificate?

Pages without an SSL certificate has the prefix "HTTP" before the address of their URL, whereas pages with an SSL certificate has the prefix "HTTPS" instead, (you can see the prefix by double clicking on the address bar).

When your site gets an SSL certificate its important that you remember to change the links leading to your site, so they include the new prefix "HTTPS" instead of the old one "HTTP". This can however be hard do as keeping track of all your links leading to your pages is easier said than done.

That's why Morningscore's SSL checker can help you by telling you which webpages include links that lead to the "HTTP" version of your pages.

What kind of issues does Morningscore’s SSL checker detect?

Morningscore's SSL checker can scan your website in order to detect whether or not it has an SSL certificate.

Another feature of the SSL checker is detecting and finding pages without SSL redirects. This mean pages that links to the old HTTP version of the page, from before the SSL certificate was implemented on the website.

How will users know if I have an SSL certificate?

Users will be able to figure out if your website has an SSL tag in different ways, but there are two different methods, that are the most common

One of them is by looking for a lock ion at the left side of the address bar while on your page, if there is a lock icon the page has an SSL certificate. Sometimes the icon might not be a lock, but clicking on it will still reveal whether or not the site has an SSL certificate.

Another method is by double clicking on the address bar, which reveals the entire URL of the page. If the URL has the prefix "HTTPS" instead of the prefix "HTTP", then it means that the page has an SSL certificate.

Can Morningscore’s SSL checker view different websites?

You will be able to register multiple different websites on Morningscore, which you can then use the tool on, including the SSL checker. You can do this by clicking on the button showing your websites URL in the top left corner of Morningscore. When you have clicked this button you can enter the URL of the website you want to use Morningscore on.