Site of the Year Teardowns
Each year Awwwards names one Site of the Year and the FWA names one FWA of the Year. This section tears down those winners year by year from 2020. Each report examines the concept, visual design, interaction and front-end build behind the award, with performance and asset data measured in a real browser.
- Reports
- 8
- Awwwards
- 5
- FWA
- 4
- Latest year
- 2025
Bruno's Portfolio
Bruno's Portfolio is the personal portfolio of French creative developer Bruno Simon, built as a small island that visitors explore in a toy jeep. At the start, the screen shows a glowing ring that shrinks to a point, and a small round patch of ground grows out of it with a red jeep parked on top. When the visitor clicks to start, the patch spreads into the whole island, and each part of the content sits wherever the jeep can drive to. The sky and the seasons follow the real clock, so everyone who opens the site at the same moment sees the same dusk, and messages left by other visitors float over the island.
Lando Norris
Lando Norris is the personal website of the McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris, and it uses the driver's racing helmet as the thread that runs from the opening portrait through a hall of fame of helmets to the footer. At the start, a front-on portrait of Lando Norris fills the screen, and wherever the cursor passes over the face, pieces of a painted helmet show through as if the cursor were stirring liquid. Resting the cursor on the NEXT RACE card pulls the whole helmet up over the head. As the visitor scrolls down, the portrait shrinks into a card and a neon-green signature writes itself across the photo stroke by stroke.
Food for Fish
Food for Fish is a point-and-click adventure game for the browser that the Belgian graphics programmer Kris Temmerman made to test WebGPU, and every frame of it is drawn by a WebGPU engine the author wrote from scratch. The hero is a bald little man who builds websites all day and who collects one pair of underpants after another to find the golden underpants of Genghis Khan that his grandfather chased all his life. At the start, the little man stands in a photo studio holding a coffee while the title writes itself beside him stroke by stroke. Visitors click the floor to make him walk and click an outlined object to make him look at it or use it.
Igloo Inc
Igloo Inc is the website of Igloo, a crypto consumer-brand company. The site freezes the company and its brands into a field of ice, and scrolling down sends the camera from an igloo on a snowy mountain deep into the ice. At the start, the screen shows that igloo, and when the cursor comes near, its ice blocks lift and glow one by one. The camera then passes through an ice fog with rainbow edges, past ice blocks holding two brands and a glowing ring, and stops in front of a penguin made of well over a hundred thousand particles. When the visitor keeps scrolling, the camera returns to the igloo.
Lusion v3
Lusion v3 is the third version of the portfolio site of Lusion, a British 3D and interactive studio, and it shows what the studio can do with 3D storytelling and interactive web work. A 3D picture runs through the whole home page, and as visitors scroll down, the picture moves forward one stretch at a time. The home page starts with a pile of white and dark grey cross-shaped blocks, a few of them in a bright accent colour. The cursor pushes them away as it comes near, and a click changes the accent colour. At the end of the home page, an astronaut flies through a glowing tunnel to a closing screen reading Let's work together.
KPR
KPR is the website of a digital-collectibles brand that released ten thousand illustrated characters called Keepers, and it turns their world into a set of concept art that visitors leaf through as they scroll. At the start, a purple-haired Keeper fills the screen, with KEEP. PROTECT. REIMAGINE. in three lines at the lower right. As the visitor scrolls down, the illustration of the Keep shrinks into a card with a folded tab and slides off screen, and the Factions illustration rises from below to fill the picture. Holding the mouse down on the Factions and World illustrations shows the objects hidden in each picture through the view of a scanner.
Persepolis Reimagined
Persepolis Reimagined is an online exhibition from the Getty that rebuilds Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire 2,500 years ago, as it once stood, and lets visitors walk into it stop by stop as an envoy coming to honour the king. At the start, the screen shows a misty plain at night, and as the visitor scrolls, the fog lifts, the sky turns golden and the city appears in the distance. Once the visitor clicks ENTER, the camera flies through the city gate, and from then on every stretch of scrolling moves the camera along a fixed route to the next statue or palace.
Pioneer - Corn Revolutionized
Pioneer - Corn Revolutionized is a promotional site for the American seed brand Pioneer that turns a new corn seed's journey from lab to farm into one unbroken 3D camera move driven by scrolling. At the start, the screen shows a corn plant. As the visitor scrolls down, the plant becomes a glowing DNA strand and the strand scatters into points of light across the screen. The points become seeds dropping into a pot, the seeds grow into a seedling, and the camera rises high to look down on a grid of test plots. Once the story ends, the camera returns to the first corn plant, and the visitor can keep scrolling forever.