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Last updated 2026-06-30 · benchmark measured 2026-09-23 — deterministic & reproducible

Mashable article explaining how Facebook uses profile photos and data in social ads.

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Legit.Show scored Mashable 54/100 on 2026-09-23, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/mashable-com/2026-09-23

Is Mashable production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Mashable 54 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Mashable (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 — 31/100
• Accessibility — 85/100
• Security — 20/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 0/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 55/100
• Discoverability — 90/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Exposed secrets detected on the public surface.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 56 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.

Who built it

product account @mashable

Who it's for

Facebook users · Privacy-conscious consumers · Social media advertisers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from mashable.com's own website on 2026-06-30.

Operator

Mashable, Inc., as named in mashable.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 2026-09-23.

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