Productivity
DuckDuckGo
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-12 — deterministic & reproducible
A private search engine that does not track or profile its users.
Is DuckDuckGo production-ready?
Legit.Show scores DuckDuckGo 92 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on DuckDuckGo (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Reliability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 98/100
- Accessibility — 95/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 75/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
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 — 366 ms to first byte.
- 2 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Gabriel · product account @DuckDuckGo
Who it's for
Privacy-conscious users · Internet users · People concerned about data profiling
Pricing
Free
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