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

How does Legit.Show measure Ghost?

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.

Content & Docs

Ghost

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark checked 2026-09-21 · unchanged since 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible

Ghost is an open-source platform for publishing blogs, newsletters, and membership sites.

90/100

7/7 frames

Top 13% of 14,148 measured

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 2026-09-21 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Ghost 90/100 on 2026-09-21, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/ghost-org/2026-09-21

Is Ghost production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Ghost 90 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Ghost (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 65/100
Accessibility — 92/100
Security — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 90/100
Standards — 85/100
Discoverability — 100/100

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 — 181 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
2 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

John · product account @Ghost

Who it's for

Creators · Bloggers · Podcasters · Publishers · Journalists · Business brands

Pricing

Free 14-day trial; Starter plan, Publisher plan, Business plan, and Enterprise custom plans available

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from ghost.org's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: Ghost Foundation, as named in ghost.org'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 2026-09-21.

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

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