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Marginalia

Last updated 2026-10-09 · benchmark measured 2026-10-09 — deterministic & reproducible

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Legit.Show scored Marginalia 78/100 on 2026-10-09, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/marginal-ia-app/2026-10-09

Is Marginalia production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Marginalia 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Marginalia (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 81/100
• Accessibility — 99/100
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 97/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 164 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Medicine professionals · Law professionals · Programmers · Mathematicians · Students

Pricing

Free (3 questions without account; additional features with account)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from marginal-ia.app's own website on 2026-10-09.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-09.

Put together from public information, without Marginalia's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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