PEO 3.2.5 introduced a Protocol feature that is pretty handy and great for site performance. Everyone knows that HTTPS is the protocol to use for sending information securely, but it's also slower than regular HTTP. That’s why a lot of commercial sites don’t switch to HTTPS until a user is on a page where sensitive information is entered or personal details are displayed.

You can now do this in your PEO site through Site Design. Simply open any screen that you would like to secure and change the Protocol field from HTTP to HTTPS. Notice that there is a third option here called Any. It means that when this screen loads, it will follow the same protocol the previous screen was using.

I recommend securing the following screens at minimum:

1. user_data.asp
2. submit_basket.asp
3. any screen that starts with ‘crm’

Of course you can secure the entire site by way of certain IIS tricks or the link you use to send patrons to your PEO site, but why slow the site down when you don’t have to?

Are you currently using this feature? Do you feel it is helping your patrons’ user experience? Leave a note in the comments.