🏆 The Guno Site Awards
Nicknamed The Gunnies — honoring the sites that make the independent web worth visiting.
The early web celebrated people who built something original and shared it with the world. The Guno Site Awards — the Gunnies — bring that tradition back. Once a year, Guno's webmaster reviews submitted sites by hand and hands out a small set of awards to the ones that stood out.
Win one, and your site gets a permanent spot in the Hall of Fame along with a badge you can proudly display.
🏅 Awards You Can Earn — 2027 Gunnies
Gold Gunny
The top overall honor for the year. Exceptional design, originality, content, and craftsmanship.
Silver Gunny
Runner-up excellence — a site with strong execution and real character.
Bronze Gunny
A quality site well worth a visit, capturing the creativity of the open web.
Webmaster's Pick
A personal favorite, hand-picked by Guno's webmaster for standing out from the crowd.
Craftsmanship Gunny
For remarkable hand-coded work — built by hand, not assembled from a template.
Spirit of the Web Gunny
For preserving the personality, experimentation, and fun of the early, independent web.
📋 How Sites Are Judged
| Area | What We Look For | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Originality | A distinct voice, concept, design, or purpose. | 25% |
| Design | Visual character, consistency, and thoughtful presentation. | 20% |
| Usability | Clear navigation and a pleasant experience on desktop and mobile. | 15% |
| Performance | Reasonable loading speed and efficient use of web technologies. | 15% |
| Content | Useful, interesting, entertaining, or meaningful material. | 15% |
| Accessibility | Readable text, useful alt text, and inclusive design. | 10% |
✅ Eligibility & Rules
- The website must be publicly accessible at the time of review.
- Personal sites, blogs, hobby projects, community sites, archives, and independent publications are welcome.
- Static sites are encouraged, but dynamic sites may also enter.
- The site must contain meaningful original content.
- Automated spam, scraped content, malware, phishing, hate content, and illegal material are not eligible.
- Submitting a site does not guarantee an award — there are only a handful of Gunnies given out each year.
- Sites that don't win may be resubmitted in a future year after meaningful improvements.
- Guno may revoke an award if a winning site later becomes unsafe, deceptive, or unrelated to the reviewed version.
🎖️ What Winners Receive
Winning sites get a permanent, verified page in the Hall of Fame — at a link like guno.cc/awards/yoursite.com — and a full-size, printable certificate-style badge (A4 portrait, 794×1123px) to display proudly. Shown below at a reduced preview size — the real thing is much larger:
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