Productivity

Bitly

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-24 — deterministic & reproducible

Bitly shortens links and generates QR Codes with click tracking and branded domains.

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Legit.Show scored Bitly 71/100 on 2026-09-24, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/bitly-com/2026-09-24

Is Bitly production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Bitly 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Bitly (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 28/100
• Accessibility — 89/100
• Security — 60/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 90/100
• Standards — 73/100
• Discoverability — 90/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 294 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.

Who built it

product account @Bitly

Who it's for

Marketers · Brands and businesses · Enterprises · Developers · Teams

Pricing

Free ($0/month), Core ($10/month annual or $120/year), Growth ($29/month annual or $35/month), Premium ($199/month annual or $300/month), Enterprise (custom)

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