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The Onion
Last updated 2026-07-27 · benchmark measured 2026-07-27 — deterministic & reproducible
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Is The Onion production-ready?
Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on The Onion (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; 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 — 80/100
- Security — 10/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 132 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: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.