While reports of major hackings continue to make news, the sites you visit are safer than ever before.

虽然关于网络黑客的报道仍旧屡见不鲜，但事实是你所访问网站的安全系数比以往任何时候都高。

In fact, the web is more secure than it was just a year ago.

其实仅和一年前相比，互联网的安全性就提高了不少。

That's because more websites are finally using encrypted connections, according to Google's transparency report.

按照谷歌在透明度报告中的说法，网络安全的提高得益于使用加密连接的网站越来越多。

More than half of the pages loaded by Google's Chrome desktop¹ browser² on the web now use HTTPS -- and two-thirds of total time is spent on encrypted websites.

Chrome（谷歌浏览器）桌面用户所浏览的页面中，逾半数通过HTTPS加密协议传输；浏览HTTPS网页占到用户上网时长的三分之二。

Sites that use HTTPS -- compared to HTTP -- let you securely pay for things online, check your bank account, and view and share sensitive data.

同HTTP相比，使用HTTPS安全传输的站点更能保证用户在线支付、银行账户查询、敏感信息浏览和分享的安全。

To do so, it encrypts communications between the browser and web server, so information is protected against hackers³ or eavesdroppers.

因为在使用加密传输协议后，网站服务商和上网用户之间的对话将被加密，防止电脑黑客和网络窃听者的入侵。

You can tell when you're on a secure website by seeing "HTTPS" and a padlock in your browser's address bar.

你可以通过查看浏览器地址栏中是否有HTTPS字样以及挂锁标志，来判断所浏览的网页是否属于安全网站。

"A web with ubiquitous HTTPS is not the distant future," Chrome security engineers wrote in a blog post last Thursday. "It's happening now, with secure browsing⁴ becoming standard for users of Chrome."

谷歌网络安全工程师上周四在博客中写到：“网站全部使用HTTPS加密传输协定的目标并非遥不可及。其实目前HTTPS协定的使用正在普及，安全浏览已成为Chrome用户的标配。”

Google began collecting Chrome browsing data in April 2015 when it discovered less than half of pages people viewed were secure.

2015年4月，谷歌发现网民所浏览的网页中安全网页不到一半，于是开始收集Chrome中的浏览数据。

Meanwhile, about 60% of web traffic using Chrome on a Mac currently accesses encrypted sites, compared to 51% on Windows and 43% on Android.

数据显示，使用Chrome浏览器的苹果电脑上，有60%的客访量来自于加密的网页，相比之下，Windows和Android用户的比例要小一些，分别为51%和43%。

But there's still a long way to go: Of the top 100 non-Google websites globally, just 34 have HTTPS by default.

即便如此，网络安全仍然是任重而道远。在全球前100的非谷歌网站中只有34个网站默认使用HTTPS加密传输协定。

Eventually Google hopes it will become standard. To achieve ubiquity, the company will start naming and shaming sites that don't use it.

谷歌的最终目的是将HTTPS加密传输协定变成行业标准。为了达到这一目的，谷歌将列出那些未加密网站的名称，对其施加压力。