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Beating the Averages
Last updated 2026-07-11 · benchmark measured 2026-07-11 — deterministic & reproducible
Paul Graham's essay arguing that Lisp gave his startup Viaweb a competitive edge.
Overall production-readiness score — reserved
Legit.Show benchmarked Beating the Averages across all seven frames. The single overall score is shown to the verified maker; the frame-by-frame breakdown is public below.
Is Beating the Averages production-ready?
Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Beating the Averages (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Security. The per-frame breakdown is public on the Legit.Show listing; the single overall production-readiness score is reserved for the verified maker.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 95/100
- Accessibility — 76/100
- Security — 10/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 67/100
- Standards — 53/100
- Discoverability — 15/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 615 ms to first byte.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Startup founders · Software developers · Programmers · Technology decision-makers