There are several steps that must occur before a browser establishes a secured connection to your website: identities must be confirmed, algorithms must be selected, and keys must be exchanged.
If not configured properly, your page load times can become much slower than unencrypted traffic.Įstablishing a secure connection. Data sent back and forth between visiting web browsers and your web server must be encrypted and decrypted.
In our prior SSL Performance Diary post, Optimizing Data Encryption, we mentioned there are 2 areas of TLS that can harbor performance problems:Įncrypting the data.
