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 desktop browser 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 hackers 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 browsing 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。