{"id":1896,"date":"2009-12-10T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/productcart-com.web7.netsourceinc.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/security-warnings-can-drive-customers-away\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:14:00","slug":"security-warnings-can-drive-customers-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/security-warnings-can-drive-customers-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Security warnings can drive customers away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a security warning? Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ScreenShot_IE_problem.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"IE Security Warning\" alt=\"IE Security Warning\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ScreenShot_IE_problem.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>When answering technical support tickets, we still see this problem quite often. Merchants might not know that the problem exists because FireFox, for example, does not show a big warning like IE does (the screen shot above is from IE 8).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security warnings can definitely scare customers and increase the drop-off rate<\/li>\n<li>It only takes 1 page element loaded onto the HTTP protocol to trigger a warning, and you might not realize that you recently introduced the problem when adding a new third-party element to your page (e.g. new tracking code, RSS feed, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.earlyimpact.com\/how_to\/avoid_security_warnings\">Take a minute to make sure your store is not triggering any security warnings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a security warning? Here&#8217;s an example: When answering technical support tickets, we still see this problem quite often. Merchants might not know that the problem exists because FireFox, for example, does not show a big warning like IE does (the screen shot above is from IE 8). Security warnings can definitely scare customers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.productcart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}