Productivity

Telegram

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app focused on security and speed.

Is Telegram production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Telegram 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Telegram (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Standards; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 83/100
• Accessibility — 75/100
• Security — 60/100
• Privacy — 70/100
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 40/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 945 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: OpenGraph image.

Who built it

Pavel Durov · product account @telegram

Who it's for

individuals · businesses · groups · communities · developers

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