Content & Docs
Ghost
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Ghost is an open-source platform for publishing blogs, newsletters, and membership sites.
Is Ghost production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Ghost 90 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Ghost (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 — 65/100
- Accessibility — 92/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 90/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
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 — 171 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 2 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Creators · Bloggers · Podcasters · Publishers · Journalists · Business brands
Pricing
Free 14-day trial; Starter plan, Publisher plan, Business plan, and Enterprise custom plans available