Methodology
The 7-Frame benchmark
Legit.Show grades how production-ready a launched service is by measuring seven frames from its public surface — the URL, HTTP response headers, and a real Lighthouse run — so even closed-source SaaS is fully assessable. The score is deterministic and reproducible: there is no LLM in the scoring path, and every service is re-checked regularly. We show exactly what was observed; it is never a black-box “good/bad” verdict.
The seven frames
- Performance — Core Web Vitals and real load behavior, from a real Lighthouse run
- Accessibility — Whether real users — including assistive tech — can actually use it
- Security — Security headers, HTTPS/transport, and exposure of the public surface
- Privacy — Cookies, consent banners, and third-party tracker / data leakage
- Reliability — Error handling, a real (not soft) 404, and monitoring signals
- Standards — Structured markup, canonical URLs, robots/sitemap, sane defaults
- Discoverability — Whether the page is built to be found and cited by AI answer engines
Form-aware scoring
Not every frame applies to every form. A static marketing site, a web app, an MCP server and an open-source repository are scored on the frames that make sense for each; frames that cannot be assessed are marked not-applicable rather than penalized. Open-source repositories additionally get a deeper code teardown.
What the score is not
The benchmark measures production-readiness hygiene observable from the outside — not whether the product is useful, well-designed, or worth buying. Those are human judgments; the benchmark is the objective, repeatable floor underneath them.
Reproducibility
Because scoring is deterministic and measured from public inputs, anyone can re-run the same checks and get the same result. That is what makes “according to Legit.Show” a citable measurement rather than an opinion.