Modern web browsers expect websites to use HTTPS to help protect visitors' information and ensure a secure connection. If a site does not have a properly installed SSL certificate, or if it is being loaded over an insecure HTTP connection, browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge may display a "Not Secure" warning in the address bar.
When visiting a site that displays this warning, you may see a message similar to Google Chrome's "Not Secure".
Selecting the warning or the "Advanced" option will provide additional information about the connection.
Depending on the browser, you may be given the option to continue loading the site despite the warning or return to a secure page.
If your site is hosted on Reclaim Hosting you likely already have an SSL certificate, allowing you to load your domain over https.
The first step to ensuring Google Chrome and other browsers do not label your site as insecure is to test this and make sure you don’t receive an error message when going to the https version of your domain. To test, manually type your domain with the following start: https://. For example, https://reclaimhosting.com.
If you load that url and do get a message that there is no certificate for that domain, it is likely that you do not have an SSL certificate properly installed for your website. In that case, you can follow this guide to installing a free SSL certificate.
Alternatively, if you do have an SSL certificate properly installed from the previous step and you are still seeing the insecure message, the next step is to make sure all assets on your site load over https, which allows your site to have a green padlock and for the “Not Secure” message to go away. For example, if you open your site with https but you have an image embedded that is from an http URL, the page is still technically insecure. You can find out which assets on your site are causing this by testing your URL at https://www.whynopadlock.com/.
If you run WordPress a quick fix may be to change your URL to https in Settings > General. Additionally a plugin like Really Simple SSL or SSL Insecure Content Fixer will convert all assets to https and make sure that the site loads securely.
The final step is to make sure all visitors that load your URL get the https version. We have a guide for setting up a redirect for this, see Force HTTPS for your site.
With those steps in place all visitors to your site will see a Secure message in the URL bar, just like the one in your browser above this guide.