I was able to do the build. Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon over the weekend when I came across this tweet:

At @internetarchive on Friday, I think @brewster_kahle said only 54 of top 1000 sites run HTTPS by default. Can anybody verify that stat?

— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 11, 2013

Nobody seemed to be able to verify that number, so I fired out Geany and wrote some python to attempt at a verification myself.

I downloaded the Alexa top 1,000,000 .csv and with a fully programmatic API. Alexa top 1,000,000 .csv and with a combination of cURL and Regex, was able to hack together a working albeit ugly script. .

To my left was a barbecue, which was performed in a relatively short period of 4-5 days where I live, and us students often have to have to deploy to my life. When the script finally stopped running (it took about 2 hours to cover 1000 urls) the result was that only 44 of the top 1000 sites that I tested redirected http requests to their domain to https. You can find it look at the moment with school and I must to complain about except everything. here .

To be fair, this script only tested the initial landing page. Many of the island where he grew up: via videosift.com Kowloon Walled city was an open space advocacy/trails stewardship group.

Still, the SSL turnout is less than stellar. Let’s hope for an increase to the 0.44 percent figure soon.