Inspiration · Evaluation
CSS Design Awards
Compliance Index score
44.9/100 · F
= flat since last week
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
CSS Design Awards scores 44.9/F on the Designesy Compliance Index — 6 of 42 checks passed, 3 failed, 14 warned, 16 skipped. The cohort mean is 69.3/D across 30 scored sites. CSS Design Awards sits 35% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Identity at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 0.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
F-grade means CSS Design Awards scores below 60 — the contract's pass threshold. The failing checks are not subjective: they are missing CSS primitives that the contract requires at :root.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 42-check engine that scored CSS Design Awards scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score cssdesignawards.com live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (42 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to Inspiration peers
CSS Design Awards ranks #3 of 3 in the Inspiration category.
Cohort context
This site
44.9/100
Cohort mean
69.3/100
Cohort median
70.0/100
Delta from mean
-24.4
Why this site is scored
Design awards