Is changedetection.io secure?

Legit.Show measured changedetection.io's Security frame at 70/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure changedetection.io?

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.

Developer Tools

changedetection.io

Source: dgtlmoon/changedetection.io · ★ 31901 · Python

Last updated 2026-06-06 · benchmark measured 2026-09-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Monitor websites for changes and receive alerts when pages update.

73/100

7/7 frames

Top 66% of 14,148 measured · #6 of 10 in website change monitoring

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 2026-09-09 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored changedetection.io 73/100 on 2026-09-09, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gh-dgtlmoon-changedetection-io/2026-09-09

Is changedetection.io production-ready?

Legit.Show scores changedetection.io 73 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on changedetection.io (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 69/100
Accessibility — 85/100
Security — 70/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 30/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 55/100

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 — 631 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @change_det_io

Who it's for

Smart shoppers · Bargain hunters · Data journalists · E-commerce users · Website monitors

Pricing

$8.99/month (annual option saves 2 months)

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from changedetection.io's own website on 2026-06-06.
Code: github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io.
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 2026-09-09.

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

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