More than half of Web pages loaded by Firefox and Chrome guarantee secure browsing by turning on HTTPS. HTTPS adoption is becoming standard all over although most of east and southeast Asia are still lagging behind. Increase in use of HTTPS attributed to growing publicity, awareness about surveillance and web server capability progress. Lets Encrypt provided secure connection for more than 21 million sites this year. The US government has also encouraged use of encryption but the crucial push has come from hosting services such as WordPress.com, Shopify, Tumblr and OVH.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/year-2016-sees-record-deployment-of-https-by-firefox-chrome