The rise of SSL site is a good indication of the amount of E-commerce on the internet as it that is one of the main reasons people enable secure socket layer (SSL). To repeat, main reason is to accept credit cards online directly and not through thrid parties such as Paypal. The number of SSL certificates found by Netcraft’s SSL Survery that are within their validity period, have a common name that matches the hostname and are issued by a widely trusted third party, has now exceeded one million.

Netcraft’s first SSL Survey in November 1996 found a total of only 3,283 certificates around the globe. It took nearly a year for this total to grow to ten thousand, and it wasn’t until August 2000 that the total exceeded a hundred thousand. In comparison, the past year has seen an average growth of more than 18,000 certificates per month.

Here at RebelNetworks, we have seen a great rise of SSL as well over the last 12 months, as well as we have developed many e-commerce stores for many small businesses. -

Source of this data is from NetCraft .com