Site of the Day Teardowns
This archive documents every Awwwards and FWA Site of the Day with an in-depth teardown. 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
- 60
- Awwwards
- 33
- FWA
- 41
- Latest
- 2026.10.08
1minus1
1minus1 is an agency that makes websites, brands and marketing for the games industry, and it has built its own new website to look like a game. Every large word on the page is pixel type made of blocks, acid green on deep purple, like the start-up screen of an old console. 1minus1 even turned its error page into a small game, in which visitors rub out a 404 made of over two hundred blocks one square at a time with the cursor, against a timer and a leaderboard.
Nocturnal Dream
Nocturnal Dream turns a lucid dream into a zoom that never stops. As visitors scroll, the camera pulls back from a crow by a lake into a church, slips through a keyhole onto a street, rises over a city and keeps shrinking into the planet, an atom and a cell. Once visitors scroll past the cell, the camera flies out of the crow's eye and back to the lake, so the dream has no end. Everything along the way is a black line drawing on cream paper, and every stage carries one line of big type stuck on like a sticker, speaking to the dreamer.
Lidar Drone Scanning
Lidar Drone Scanning is the official website of a drone that does not exist. The Polish studio Riotters invented a LiDAR inspection drone brand called Aevion, then built its site the way real product sites are built, from the hovering drone and the spec sheet all the way to the data software. The most convincing part comes at the end, a 3D terrain map where a visitor clicks a point, the camera flies to it and a panel with a risk level and a confidence score opens, like a real inspection report.
INHERITED
On its website, the deathcore band INHERITED splits its own name into four pieces and wedges them between the bodies of its three members, as if the three of them were holding the name apart. Every large headline on the page keeps trembling slightly, and now and then its edges tear open in a thin line, like a videotape with a bad signal. The site barely relies on words, since a red wall, black clothes and a series of faces shot very close up are all the introduction the band gives its visitors.
Santioni Spirits
Santioni Spirits has not put its new drinks on sale yet, so its website first tells a comic book story in which a saint crosses a wasteland, enters a hall of red columns and drinks a glass. Halfway through, the visitor has to pick one of three bottles for him. The colour they pick takes over the rest of the story, so the drink being poured, the saint's robe and the petals around him all turn that colour, and the narrator names the matching ingredients.
EDOLUS
The EDOLUS website introduces an artificial intelligence infrastructure company through seven 3D scenes that flow into one another. The camera starts at a satellite in Earth orbit, drops into a desert city, dives into a chip inside a server room and ends up behind a car. Scrolling through it feels like watching a product launch film whose pace the visitor controls, and the music changes its arrangement with every scene. Only at the very end does the screen say Edolus never existed, and the company turns out to have been made up from the start.
Kinoria
Kinoria is a fully mechanical 35mm camera that does not exist, and its website does not stop at describing it. The site hands the camera to the visitor along with four frames of film. The visitor loads a roll, raises the finder to four scenes that are playing as moving footage, and presses the shutter. Each frame locks the moment it is taken, with no preview and no delete. The four prints then develop slowly in a darkroom and land on a wall covered with other framings of the same scenes.
Night Drive Racing Game
Night Drive Racing Game fits a whole open-world racing game into a web page. A visitor who opens the link can drive a sports car anywhere in a rain-soaked neon city full of jobs, street races and dozens of hidden symbols to find. Players can also get out and walk, swap cars in a garage, or send a link that brings up to three friends into the same city. The reflections in the puddles, the raindrops on the bodywork and the water on the lens are all calculated live by the graphics card.
Tengile MalaMala Collection
Tengile MalaMala Collection runs safari lodges near South Africa's Kruger National Park, and its website gives the most unusual animation on the homepage to conservation rather than to the rooms. On the conservation screen, the heading Preserving Life's Balance is ringed by six small photos, from a rhino and a young impala to a hand holding a tiny flower. When a visitor scrolls there, the photos spread out along an ellipse and then keep circling the heading, taking about fifty seconds per lap.
Long Hoang Portfolio
Long Hoang has turned his job-hunting portfolio into a game in which the visitor drives a tank. After the start screen, the visitor steers a small lime green tank from a grassy hill into a cartoon factory, where the author's four projects are loaded into a machine with a screen. When the visitor parks the tank in front of the machine and presses a key, the camera drops to ground level, the screen lights up with a project, and a card shaped like torn paper appears beside it. A visitor with no time to play can press a button at the bottom of the screen, and the tank is delivered directly to the work.
Milledollars
The video production company MilleDollars has built a website where the films themselves are the interface. Every screen of the home page is one film, and when a visitor nudges the scroll wheel, that film shrinks into a rounded card and slides away upward while the next one rises from below. The works page is normally just a neat list of text, but wherever the cursor rests, the whole page fills with that project's film, and even the divider above it turns into a hand-drawn scribble.