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Independent Wire
Last updated 2026-06-29 · benchmark checked 2026-08-11 · unchanged since 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Independent Wire is an open newsroom publishing multi-source dossiers on global news topics.
Is Independent Wire production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Independent Wire 77 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Independent Wire (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 93/100
- Accessibility — 91/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 65/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 266 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: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Journalists · Policy analysts · Researchers · News organizations · Global affairs professionals
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