Productivity
Bitly
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Bitly shortens links and generates QR Codes with click tracking and branded domains.
Is Bitly production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Bitly 73 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 — 42/100
- Accessibility — 89/100
- Security — 60/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- 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 — 277 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 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)