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Last updated 2026-07-22 · benchmark checked 2026-08-15 · unchanged since 2026-07-22 — deterministic & reproducible
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84/100
Top 29% of 11,664 measured
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 5 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Checked 2026-08-15 · scores move as sites change
Is How-To Geek production-ready?
Legit.Show scores How-To Geek 84 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on How-To Geek (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Privacy. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- 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 — 474 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.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
product account @howtogeek