Infrastructure & DevOps
Let's Encrypt
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, open Certificate Authority run by a nonprofit.
87/100
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 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.
Is Let's Encrypt production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Let's Encrypt 87 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Let's Encrypt (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 81/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 70/100
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 — 113 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.
Who it's for
Website owners · System administrators · Developers · Nonprofits
Pricing
Free