Is Web Design Awards secure?

Legit.Show measured Web Design Awards's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Web Design Awards?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Design & Creative

Web Design Awards

Last updated 2026-07-11 · benchmark measured 2026-09-13 — deterministic & reproducible

Web Design Awards scores submitted websites against a public rubric judged by working designers.

86/100

7/7 frames

Top 24% of 14,148 measured · #5 of 10 in design inspiration gallery

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-13 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Web Design Awards 86/100 on 2026-09-13, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/webdesignawards-io/2026-09-13

Is Web Design Awards production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Web Design Awards 86 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 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 Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 85/100
Accessibility — 100/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 75/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
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 — 387 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

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from webdesignawards.io's own website on 2026-07-11.
Operator: Higglo Digital LLC, as named in webdesignawards.io'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 2026-09-13.

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