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Last updated 2026-08-21 · benchmark measured 2026-08-21 — deterministic & reproducible

China Desk delivers daily English-language summaries of Chinese news across business, politics, and tech.

Is China Desk production-ready?

Legit.Show scores China Desk 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on China Desk (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 89/100
• Security — 65/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 79/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 105 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

news readers · China watchers · business analysts · investors · researchers

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