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GDC Vault

Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-09-24 — deterministic & reproducible

GDC Vault is an archive of recorded sessions and slides from the GDC Festival of Gaming.

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Legit.Show scored GDC Vault 57/100 on 2026-09-24, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gdcvault-com/2026-09-24

Is GDC Vault production-ready?

Legit.Show scores GDC Vault 57 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on GDC Vault (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Discoverability. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 85/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 75/100
• 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 — 922 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap.

Who built it

product account @Official_GDC

Who it's for

Game developers · Studio teams · Game industry professionals · Independent game creators

Pricing

Subscription-based (free tier available with limited access; paid memberships available for full content access)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from gdcvault.com's own website on 2026-08-20.

Operator

Informa PLC, as named in gdcvault.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 2026-09-24.

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

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