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Buffer

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-16 — deterministic & reproducible

Buffer is a social media scheduling and management tool for individuals and teams.

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Legit.Show scored Buffer 92/100 on 2026-09-16, measured across 6 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/buffer-com/2026-09-16

Is Buffer production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Buffer 92 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Buffer (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 80/100
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 274 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.

Who built it

Andy Yates (@ay8s) · product account @buffer

Who it's for

Creators · Small businesses · Agencies · Nonprofits · Developers

Pricing

Free plan with 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts; paid plans with volume discounts (lower per-channel cost at 10+ channels); 14-day free trial available; 50% discount for nonprofits

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from buffer.com's own website on 2026-08-03.

Operator

Buffer, Inc., as named in buffer.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-16.

Put together from public information, without Buffer's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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