Productivity

DuckDuckGo

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-13 — deterministic & reproducible

A private search engine that does not track or profile its users.

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Legit.Show scored DuckDuckGo 85/100 on 2026-09-13, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/duckduckgo-com/2026-09-13

Is DuckDuckGo production-ready?

Legit.Show scores DuckDuckGo 85 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on DuckDuckGo (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 54/100
• Accessibility — 95/100
• Security — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 89/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 124 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

Gabriel · product account @DuckDuckGo

Who it's for

Privacy-conscious users · Internet users · People concerned about data profiling

Pricing

Free

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from duckduckgo.com's own website on 2026-08-03.

Operator

Duck Duck Go, Inc., as named in duckduckgo.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-13.

Put together from public information, without DuckDuckGo's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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