Ghost

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Ghost's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 142 ms.
• Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.

87% of the 46 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Ghost; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “Ghost is a simple, focused, blogging platform which is entirely focused on this purpose. As a victim of it's own success, this is not something Wordpress can reasonably claim to be any longer. Furthermore - my comment…”

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• Positive

  “Great work and writeup at Ghost. I bookmarked it as an example to give to others wanting to do business and good things at same time. Ghost could deliver its good products/services on top of taking some responsibility…”

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• Critical

  “Apparently that's the motto of the folks at Ghost. I'm really disappointed at the progress of this project that I thought would take on WP in 1 or 2 years time since launch but we're heading to year no 3 and they still…”

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• Critical

  “We use hosted Ghost for our blog. For the most part, it's been great. My biggest complaint is that Ghost doesn't yet have a built in SSL/TLS option (e.g. Let's Encrypt). I'm really disappointed by this since it will be…”

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Threads: Ghost Launches to The Public (2013, 261 comments) · What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M (2018, 173 comments) · Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6 (2015, 163 comments) · Ghost 3.0 (2019, 112 comments)