Data & Analytics
Our World in Data
Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark checked 2026-08-09 · unchanged since 2026-08-08 — deterministic & reproducible
Data and research on the environmental impacts of food production worldwide.
Is Our World in Data production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Our World in Data 73 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Our World in Data (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 — 46/100
- Accessibility — 81/100
- Security — 65/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 128 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) · product account @OurWorldInData
Who it's for
Researchers · Students · Policymakers · Environmental advocates · General public
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