We have tested 31 winners of the Awwwards Site of the Day. (Check the end of the article for How we test.)

Top 10

PageSpeed Insights Mobile: 100

PageSpeed Insights Desktop: 96

WebPagetest: 100

PageSpeed Insights Mobile: 91

PageSpeed Insights Desktop: 97

WebPagetest: 80

3. Away We Go – 85/100

PageSpeed Insights Mobile: 85

PageSpeed Insights Desktop: 87

WebPagetest: 83

4th – 10th place

Last 3

The lowest 3 results in our test were:

Complete results

You can check out complete results in this spreadsheet.

Google PageSpeed Insights

The following table shows how many sites passed Google PageSpeed Insights rules:

Legend:

Passed – No significant issues found. Good job!

– No significant issues found. Good job! Consider Fixing – Consider fixing this if it is not a lot of work

– Consider fixing this if it is not a lot of work Should Fix – Fixing this would have a measurable impact on page performance

WebPagetest

What optimization grades did websites get from WebPagetest?

How we test

Google PageSpeed Insights

We test each website home page with Google PageSpeed Insights and count the average score from the Mobile and Desktop results.

WebPagetest

We test each website home page with WebPagetest and calculate the score from the result grades as follows:

A – 100

– 100 B – 80

– 80 C – 60

– 60 D – 40

– 40 F – 0

Effective use of CDN criteria is either Yes (100) or X (No – 0).

Total Score

The total score is calculated as an average from the Google PageSpeed Insights score and the WebPagetest score. The maximum score any site can get is 100.