Website Awards - World's Top Awards: Current Top Awards

Which website awards are the most prestigious?
The awards in these pages have been selected as the Top Awards in the world.
Winning any of these awards is a great achievement!

Richard Berends, Webmaster, Website Awards

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The awards in these pages have been selected by Website Awards as the Top Awards in the world. They earned this distinction by being widely recognized among webmasters as the best awards in their country of origin and by having very high standards. They are the elite awards, and they are very difficult to win. Out of thousands of applications, only a few sites are selected to receive them. If your website wins any of these awards, then it truly is one of the best!

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Some of these Award Sites offer more than one award, but only the best ones are rated as Top Awards. If more than one award is rated as a Top Award, they are all named in the column on the right. If the awards are multi-level, the lesser award is named in the column on the right and followed by the words, "or better."

Country

Award Site

World's Top Award

Belgium

Tim's Spider Awards

Gold Award ⁽⁶⁾

Belgium

Vie's Inn of Wonders' Award

Gold Award, or better ^{(1) (6)}

Canada

Casey's Celtic Charm Award

Gold Award, or better ⁽¹⁾

England

Favourite Website Awards

FWA One Award, or better ⁽¹⁾

France

Prospective Award

Silver Award, or better ^{(1) (6)}

Korea

Korea Awards

Top Award, or better ^{(1) (6)}

Netherlands

LTS Grail Award

Grail Award ⁽⁸⁾

Netherlands

Maestro Awards of Excellence

Master Website Award, or better ⁽²⁾

New Zealand

ONZCDA

Gold Award, or better ⁽¹⁾

Russia

Perm Heritage Award

Silver Award, or better ^{(1) (5)}

Spain

Alcazaren Award

Gold Award, or better ^{(1) (8)}

United States

Astral Awards

Silver Award, or better ^{(1) (8)}

United States

International Web Page Awards

Any IWP Award ⁽²⁾

United States

Lynx Awards

Gold Award, or better ^{(1) (10)}

United States

Nem5 Awards Program

Silver Maggic Award, or better ⁽¹⁾

United States

The Internet Beacon

Gold Award, or better ^{(1) (6)}

United States

The Webby Awards

Webby Award

United States

TS Graves Website Awards

Gold Award, or better ^{(1) (9)}

United States

Ultraweb Awards

Level 3 Award, or better ⁽¹⁾

United States

Web Marketing Association

Any WMA Award ⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾ The words "or better" mean other awards that are harder to win than the named award.
⁽²⁾ If applicable, Merit and Nominee Awards, or equivalent, do not count as World's Top Awards.
⁽³⁾ This award is temporarily offline or is not accepting applications at this time, but it will still count as a Top Award if you won it in the past and the winner's list is posted on the award site.
^(4-9) Only for awards issued after the following dates . Does not include any issued before this date.

⁽⁴⁾ 1 January 2001
⁽⁵⁾ 1 February 2003

⁽⁶⁾ 1 January 2004⁽⁷⁾ 1 June 2004

⁽⁸⁾ 1 January 2005
⁽⁹⁾ 1 July 2005

The selection of the Top Awards is based on the rules and criteria outlined in the Selection Process page. If you think that your award meets all the requirements, please send me the name and URL of your Award Site by email. We will be pleased to evaluate your award program for selection as a World's Top Award.

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Top Award Graphics

If your award is listed above as a Current Top Award, you are entitled to display one of the Top Award Graphics to show that your award has been rated by Website Awards as one of the best awards in the world. A number of graphics are available for this purpose, and you may choose the one that best suits the design and layout of your page.

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