Why an SSL Certificate Matters for your Business Website
Paul Lyons, Owner of DesignWeb is a specialist in Web Design North Wales in the UK. Here, he discusses the importance of an SSL Certificate for business website owners. Research by GlobalSign found that businesses without an SSL certificate are likely to lose up to 84% of their customers before their purchase is complete. This means that if your business website does not have an SSL certificate , your company is almost certainly losing business. That’s the bad news. The good news is - it won’t cost you much to fix and your website designer will be able to help. For example, we charge our North Wales web design clients as little as £80.00. What is an SSL certificate? An SSL is an electronic certificate that ensures your customer’s private information (such as contact details, passwords and payment details) are inaccessible to third parties. Sites with them display as https:// rather than http:// and there is a little padlock shown in the add...