Legit.Show measured SEC.gov's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure SEC.gov?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Education & Reference

SEC.gov

SEC.gov is the official website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

45/100

7-Frame production-readiness — according to Legit.Show

Is SEC.gov production-ready?

Legit.Show measured SEC.gov at 45 out of 100 on its 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark (public-surface assessment). Its strongest frame is Accessibility (98); its weakest is Privacy (0). Every frame is measured deterministically from the public surface — exactly what was observed is shown below.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 63/100
Accessibility — 98/100
Security — 45/100
Privacy — 0/100
Reliability — 25/100
Standards — 70/100
Discoverability — 15/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Lighthouse performance score 63/100 (132 ms to first byte).
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

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