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Last updated 2026-06-29 · benchmark measured 2026-08-13 — deterministic & reproducible
404 Media is an independent tech journalism outlet covering hidden worlds online and offline.
Is 404 Media production-ready?
Legit.Show scores 404 Media 75 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on 404 Media (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Discoverability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 61/100
- Accessibility — 85/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 90/100
- Standards — 97/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 133 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 2 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) · product account @404mediaco
Who it's for
Technology journalists · Investigative reporters · Privacy advocates · Security researchers · General readers interested in tech news
Pricing
Free articles with option to subscribe for ad-free access and bonus content
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