Web Design Awards
Editorial web design awards built for the cycle of nominate → judge → ship, with transparent rubric scoring and an open knowledge graph of every studio, technology, and category.
Web Design Awards runs a rolling annual cycle with monthly Site of the Month picks, an open judging rubric, and a transparent leaderboard ranking agencies by nomination, winner, and Site of the Month points. Every nominee gets a permanent canonical page with structured data - meaning your win is indexed, citable, and surfaced in retrieval systems.
The facts.
What gets scored.
- Visual craft and typographic discipline
- Interaction quality and motion
- Information architecture and content depth
- Performance, accessibility, and engineering rigor
- Originality of concept and execution
Jurors are working designers, agency leads, and engineers. Scores are normalized across the rubric and the rubric itself is public.
The balance.
- Free baseline nomination
- Published rubric and transparent judging
- Agency leaderboard with structured points scoring
- Permanent canonical pages with JSON-LD on every nominee and winner
- Newer program - prestige still compounding
- Smaller annual cohort than legacy programs
Who it fits.
- Independent web design agencies
- Webflow, Framer, and headless studios
- Teams shipping for SaaS and brand
FAQ
What does Web Design Awards judge?
Web Design Awards evaluates submissions on: Visual craft and typographic discipline, Interaction quality and motion, Information architecture and content depth, Performance, accessibility, and engineering rigor, Originality of concept and execution. Scoring is done by editorial jury scoring against a published rubric, with monthly site of the month rounds, an annual winners cycle, and an agency of the year leaderboard powered by points.
Is it free to submit to Web Design Awards?
Web Design Awards has a free submission route. The $49 nomination is the judged path: scored against the rubric within weeks and eligible for Site of the Month. The free path costs no money but joins a queue that currently runs close to a year, is not guaranteed to be published, and is not eligible for Site of the Month. Optional Rushed Judging and agency membership tiers are published at /pricing.
What award levels does Web Design Awards give out?
Web Design Awards recognizes work across 5 levels: Nominee, Site of the Month, Winner, Site of the Year, Agency of the Year.
Who is Web Design Awards best for?
Best fit for Independent web design agencies; Webflow, Framer, and headless studios; Teams shipping for SaaS and brand.
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Last reviewed: 2026-08-24