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Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-08-20 — deterministic & reproducible
CSS-Tricks is a website about building websites, focused on CSS and front-end development.
Is CSS-Tricks production-ready?
Legit.Show scores CSS-Tricks 86 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on CSS-Tricks (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Standards; its weakest is Privacy. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 80/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 267 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 1 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Geoff Graham (@geoffreygraham) · product account @css
Who it's for
Web developers · Front-end engineers · HTML enthusiasts · Accessibility-focused developers
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