Design & Creative
Web Design Awards
Last updated 2026-07-11 · benchmark measured 2026-08-12 — deterministic & reproducible
Web Design Awards scores submitted websites against a public rubric judged by working designers.
Is Web Design Awards production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Web Design Awards 83 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Web Design Awards (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 535 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
product account @webdesignaward
Who it's for
Web designers · Agencies · Studios · Design companies · Website creators
Pricing
$49 standard submission, $98 for 48-hour rush, $0 free listing; annual studio programs from $100-$5,000/yr
Visit Web Design Awards → · Alternatives to Web Design Awards → · How this was measured →