Legit.Show measured Medium's Security frame at 25/100. No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Medium?

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.

Content & Docs

Medium

Medium is a high-authority publishing platform for guest posts and content distribution.

71/100

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

Is Medium production-ready?

Legit.Show measured Medium at 71 out of 100 on its 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark (public-surface assessment). Its strongest frame is Reliability (100); 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 — 91/100
Accessibility — 95/100
Security — 25/100
Privacy — 0/100
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 89/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Lighthouse performance score 91/100 (79 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.
Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Content creators · Writers · Marketers · Publishers · Bloggers

Pricing

free

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