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

How does Legit.Show measure Cardel?

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.

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Cardel

Last updated 2026-09-02 · benchmark measured 2026-09-02 — deterministic & reproducible

Cardel is a website and audience platform for creators with built-in email and shop tools.

83/100

7/7 frames

Top 34% of 14,148 measured · #11 of 21 in creator monetization platform

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-02 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Cardel 83/100 on 2026-09-02, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/cardel-io/2026-09-02

Is Cardel production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Cardel 83 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Cardel (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 78/100
Accessibility — 96/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 75/100
Standards — 89/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 704 ms to first byte.
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

Orin Hutchings · product account @cardel_io

Who it's for

Authors · Professionals · Creators · Independent artists · Small teams

Pricing

Starter $69/mo ($828/yr), Pro $119/mo ($1,428/yr), Business $239/mo ($2,868/yr); custom enterprise pricing available

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from cardel.io's own website on 2026-09-02.
Operator: Cardel Technologies, LLC, as named in cardel.io'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 2026-09-02.

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