Once a website is submitted, our team will check if it meets the requirements before being sent to the SWA rating system and Jury panel. Sites can take up to 1 month to get published, and as our approval process is carried out manually, there may be delays due to the large volume of submissions.
Determine your website category (Personal, Commercial or Ecommerce). If you are still unsure of the category, you may refer HERE.
Submit your website here on “SUBMIT SITE”. Please ensure you abide to the Terms and Conditions stated on the website, as it is mandatory for verification purposes.
Submissions will be verified by the jury panel and SWA rating system. An email notification on your submission/website approval will then be sent to you.
You're all set! Leave the rest to the judges to evaluate your website.
This category is for individual websites. For example, portfolios, blogs or any websites that are built for their own usage & sharing.
This category is for company or business websites. For example, any business that showcases its profile on a website for customers to refer to.
-This category is for business websites with an add-to-cart system and payment gateway.
The 30 highest-scoring sites in a year (10 highest-scoring sites per category) are nominated for the Web Excellence Award and reviewed by the Jury a second time. The SWA rating system plays an important part in choosing the nominees from the submissions as sites with the highest scores will carry extra weight in the Jury's final decision.
50% rating by SWA rating system, and 50% by jury panel.
Judging criteria: Design, SEO, Accessibility, Performance & Content.
The Web Excellence Awards will be divided into three categories: Personal, Commercial and Ecommerce, with a total of 10 winners.
The Web Excellence Award winners will be announced in July 2024 and January 2025 respectively.
The 3 most outstanding websites which stood out over the year! All Web Excellence Awards winners are automatically nominated for Site of The Year (SOTY).
100% rated by jury panel.
Judging criteria: Design, SEO, Accessibility, Performance & Content.
1 winner from each category: Personal, Commercial and Ecommerce, with a total of 3 winners.
The Site of The Year (SOTY) will be announced at the ceremony.
You will only be able to see your jury score if you are the winner of Site of The Year (SOTY).
More than just coming up with a pretty or trendy-looking website that catches attention, the ideal website design should be able to deliver quality visuals that are both appropriate and relevant to the web content and the intended visitors.
The website should have a clean, professional logo for branding that matches with the theme, concept, colours, and creative elements found within the website. Other deciding factors include layout, typography, images, and audio.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, determines the ranking of a website in the search engine results. A website with a high SEO value is guaranteed online visibility and better traffic.
The content of the website, such as the page title, meta tags and the presence of indexation, must show an effective use of various SEO techniques that maximise search engine visibility.
Being the heartbeat of a website, it is a must for the website content to be aligned with the website’s topic and genre. Content includes, but is not restricted to, music, sound, video, animation, and any other relevant methods of presentation found within the website.
All content in the website should be presented in an attractive and tidy layout, with readable font, contrasting colour schemes, and no broken links.
The characteristics of good content – informative, engaging, memorable, and leaves visitors wanting more.
A website is meant to be accessed; good accessibility makes a website more user-friendly, functional, and allows visitors to get the information they need quickly and easily, whenever and wherever they are.
The website must be compatible and easily accessible on all devices. The use of relevant accessibility-enhancing features and technologies such as URL rewriting should also be demonstrated to make user interaction with the website convenient, responsive, optimally interactive, and memorable.
Users tend to get frustrated when websites take too long to load. The website must not only be filled with impressive content and creative layout; the performance of the website, especially its loading speed, can make or break a good website.
The website must have an optimum download speed, reflecting a skillful utilisation of page caching, website compression, and other forms of loading optimisation without compromising on the quality of its content and layout.