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desktopcolors.com

Last updated 2026-08-17 · benchmark measured 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible

An archive of solid desktop background colors from classic operating systems.

Is desktopcolors.com production-ready?

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

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 95/100
• Security — 25/100
• Privacy — 70/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1045 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Designers · Developers · Digital historians · Nostalgia enthusiasts · Color researchers

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