Infrastructure & DevOps
pi-hole
Source: pi-hole/pi-hole · ★ 59182 · Shell
Last updated 2026-06-08 · benchmark measured 2026-08-16 — deterministic & reproducible
Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS-based ad blocker you self-host at home.
Is pi-hole production-ready?
Legit.Show scores pi-hole 64 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on pi-hole (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Standards; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 56/100
- Accessibility — 71/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 75/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 40/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options.
- No HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 232 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, canonical URL.
Who built it
Dan Schaper · product account @The_Pi_Hole
Who it's for
Home users · Network administrators · Users wanting mobile app ad blocking · Bandwidth-conscious users · Smart home owners
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