Design & Creative
Web Design Awards
Last updated 2026-07-11 · benchmark measured 2026-07-11 — deterministic & reproducible
Web Design Awards scores submitted websites against a public rubric judged by working designers.
Is Web Design Awards production-ready?
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 Privacy. The per-frame breakdown is public on the Legit.Show listing; the single overall production-readiness score is reserved for the verified maker.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 84/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- 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 — 394 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 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