Simple SSL slows website down

Hi Hans,

https:// is rarely faster than https://. This is because SSL uses encryption which always adds a bit of server load, some server cope better with this than others. On some servers the loading time increase is minimal while others take a bit longer. If possible, we recommend to enable the .htaccess redirect option in the plugin settings. The .htaccess redirect option is the most reliable and fastest redirect option and can improve the loading speed.

Mark

Thanx for the answer, but from 0,5 to 1 sec, you can hardly call that “a bit”. Enabling the .htaccess redirect option seems to cause only a very small improvement

For a website to load over SSL, the server needs to encrypt the data, then the browser decrypts it again. This will always lower site speed. How much this is depends on your server. See also this article for more info on this:
https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/really-simple-ssl-make-site-slower/

Well, I really don’t know, but since I removed the plugin and implemented the https-adres manually the load time was cut down to half the time, from 0.9 to 0,4 sec in the Pingdom test. My load time on https is now faster then the former http load time, so how can that be?
The plugin does a good job, but doing it manually was actually very easy to do when I found out how to do it. You have to invest a little time, but thats all.

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