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Ahrefs
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
SEO and web visibility platform built on large-scale crawler data and link index.
Is Ahrefs production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Ahrefs 87 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Ahrefs (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 36/100
- Accessibility — 77/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 97/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 373 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.
Who built it
Dmytro Gerasymenko (@botsbreeder) · product account @ahrefs
Who it's for
SEO professionals · Marketing consultants · In-house marketing teams · Enterprises · Content marketers
Pricing
Lite $129/mo, Essential $249/mo, Advanced $449/mo, Enterprise $1,499/mo (annual); Brand Radar from $199/mo; Starter $29/mo; Free tier available; Annual discount up to 17%
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