Country · October 2026
FranceFrance's top sites: post-quantum TLS, October 2026
The 998 most visited sites in France — the top-1,000 popularity bucket of the Chrome UX Report for September 2026 — scanned on with the same scanner as the rest of the issue. 988 of them completed a handshake.
- 73.1%
- negotiate X25519MLKEM768
- 48.7%
- sign with ECDSA
- 93.8%
- negotiate TLS 1.3
- 23.5%
- still accept TLS 1.0 or 1.1
- 0.4%
- meet the 2029 lifetime rule
- 72.2%
- graded A or A+
3 of 9 countries; the world list: 58.7%
the world list: 41%
the world list: 84.8%
the world list: 29.5%
median lifetime: 90 days
the world list: 61.6%
Compared with the other countries
The same figures for every country list of the issue and for the world list.
| List | Measured | X25519MLKEM768 | ECDSA | TLS 1.3 | TLS 1.0/1.1 | A or A+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tranco top 10,000 | 7,909 | 58.7% | 41% | 84.8% | 29.5% | 61.6% |
| Mexico | 942 | 77% | 50.3% | 92.5% | 32.9% | 60.8% |
| Brazil | 971 | 73.6% | 52.9% | 90.4% | 38.6% | 56.5% |
| France | 988 | 73.1% | 48.7% | 93.8% | 23.5% | 72.2% |
| Germany | 999 | 72.8% | 51.8% | 94.8% | 24.8% | 72.3% |
| Spain | 991 | 68.4% | 40.1% | 87% | 23.6% | 66.1% |
| Taiwan | 947 | 66.8% | 46.7% | 85.9% | 43.7% | 45.2% |
| China | 963 | 63.2% | 55.1% | 87.9% | 61.5% | 33.3% |
| Japan | 969 | 58% | 27.9% | 78.1% | 31.9% | 56.3% |
| Russia | 955 | 27% | 29.8% | 79.3% | 40.4% | 52.5% |
The details
Leaf certificate key algorithms
Share of the 988 domains that completed a handshake.
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| Key family | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| RSA | 507 | 51.3% |
| ECDSA | 481 | 48.7% |
Exact key types
Curve for elliptic-curve keys, modulus size for RSA.
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| Key type | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ECDSA P-256 | 477 | 48.3% |
| RSA-2048 | 450 | 45.5% |
| RSA-4096 | 49 | 5% |
| RSA-3072 | 8 | 0.8% |
| ECDSA P-384 | 4 | 0.4% |
Issuing CAs, and what they issue
Issuing intermediates folded into the operator behind them. The bar is the CA's share; the table shows how the same certificates split between ECDSA and RSA.
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| Certificate authority | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Google Trust Services | 289 | 29.3% |
| Let's Encrypt | 240 | 24.3% |
| DigiCert | 165 | 16.7% |
| Sectigo | 100 | 10.1% |
| Amazon | 72 | 7.3% |
| Other / smaller CAs | 56 | 5.7% |
| GlobalSign | 54 | 5.5% |
| Microsoft | 5 | 0.5% |
| Smaller CAs (4) | 7 | 0.7% |
Protocol negotiated by a modern client
What our scanner and the server agreed on when both were free to pick the best available version.
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| TLS version | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| TLS 1.3 | 927 | 93.8% |
| TLS 1.2 | 61 | 6.2% |
Response to a deliberately obsolete handshake
A separate connection per domain, offering nothing above TLS 1.1 (and, where that succeeds, a second one capped at TLS 1.0).
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| Behaviour | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Refused TLS 1.0 and 1.1 | 756 | 76.5% |
| Accepted TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 | 224 | 22.7% |
| Accepted TLS 1.1 | 8 | 0.8% |
Certificate lifetime distribution
Total notBefore → notAfter validity of the leaf certificate, for the 988 domains measured. The highlighted bucket is the one that already satisfies the 2029 limit.
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| Lifetime | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 47 days | 4 | 0.4% |
| 48–100 days | 558 | 56.5% |
| 101–200 days | 285 | 28.8% |
| 201–398 days | 141 | 14.3% |
| > 398 days | 0 | 0% |
90 days
median lifetime; the mean is 161.8 days, the shortest 14 and the longest 397
56.9%
would already satisfy the 100-day cap that starts in March 2027
0.4%
would already satisfy the 47-day cap that starts in March 2029 — 4 certificates in total
Grade distribution
All 988 domains that completed a handshake.
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| Grade | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 243 | 24.6% |
| A | 470 | 47.6% |
| B | 48 | 4.9% |
| C | 222 | 22.5% |
| D | 5 | 0.5% |
| F | 0 | 0% |
Most frequent findings
Every observation the grader made, ranked by how many domains it applied to. Green is praise, amber is a deduction, red is disqualifying.
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| Finding | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chain complete as served | 988 | 100% |
| Classical algorithm — migration ahead | 988 | 100% |
| Within validity period | 933 | 94.4% |
| TLS 1.3 negotiated | 927 | 93.8% |
| Legacy TLS refused | 756 | 76.5% |
| Lifetime of 90 days or less | 543 | 55% |
| Modern key (ECDSA / EdDSA) | 481 | 48.7% |
| RSA-2048 — fine, but not compact | 450 | 45.5% |
| TLS 1.0 accepted | 224 | 22.7% |
| TLS 1.3 not offered | 61 | 6.2% |
| RSA above 2048 bits | 57 | 5.8% |
| In the renewal window (< 30 days) | 42 | 4.3% |
Why domains dropped out
Share of the 10 domains that produced no result. One attempt each — the scanner never retries.
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| Reason | Domains | Share |
|---|---|---|
| No handshake before the timeout | 9 | 90% |
| Handshake or certificate error | 1 | 10% |
Data
The hosts behind these numbers are rows of the issue's per-host CSV whose crux_countries column contains fr. Country lists come from the Chrome UX Report by Google (CC BY 4.0); the results are licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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