Let’s Encrypt Statistics, User Counts and Facts (2021)



By:    Last updated: July 10th, 2021

Here are a few of the most interesting Let’s Encrypt statistics and facts I was able to dig up including user counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.

Let's Encrypt Statistics user count and Facts

Let’s Encrypt Facts

  • Website: Official Website
  • Year Founded: 2013
  • Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
  • Parent Company: Internet Security Research Group

What is Let’s Encrypt?

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). We give people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites, for free, in the most user-friendly way we can. We do this because we want to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web. (source)

Additional Let’s Encrypt Statistics

Number of certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt:

1 billion

Last updated 2/27/20

Number of websites served by Let’s Encrypt:

192 million websites

Last updated 2/27/20

Number of Let’s Encrypt employees:

13

Last updated 2/27/20

Please note that some of these numbers are easier to find than others. A few of these Let’s Encrypt stats come from their own reports, but some are based on news reports and not official company tallies. No information contained on DMR should be relied upon to make investment decisions. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100%.

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