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Last updated 2026-07-08 · benchmark measured 2026-08-10 — deterministic & reproducible
Medium article arguing that modern PHP deserves reconsideration despite its outdated reputation.
Is Medium production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Medium 56 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Medium (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 29/100
- Accessibility — 85/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 47/100
- Standards — 82/100
- Discoverability — 25/100
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 — 94 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap.
Who built it
Fagner Brack (@FagnerBrack)
Who it's for
Web developers · Junior developers · Career changers · Freelancers · WordPress developers
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