Original data · recomputed every build
What 22 award-tier websites are actually made of.
Across 22 published sites cut into 83 catalogued pieces, the median site is made of 4 parts — not the dozens people assume. The largest runs to 8; the smallest is a single unbroken composition. 64% carry at least one reusable effect. Everything below is measured from our own build registry, not surveyed or estimated.
A site is fewer parts than you think
Pieces are cut at scroll boundaries and never mid-mechanic — a pinned sequence is one part however long it runs. That is why the counts are lower than a component inventory would suggest: this measures the journey, not the DOM.
- Median
- 4
- Mean
- 3.8
- Most
- 8
- Fewest
- 0
parts per site
parts per site
the biggest build
one composition
What those parts are
Most common shapes
Themes, by how often they appear
Themes that travel together
Which pairs actually co-occur on the same build. Useful mostly as a warning: the common pairs are common because they are safe, and the rare ones are where a site stops looking like the others.
- editorial + minimal6 sites
- luxury + minimal5 sites
- dark + editorial4 sites
- dark + tech4 sites
- editorial + luxury4 sites
- dark + minimal3 sites
Method, so you can argue with it
The corpus is every site we have published and can show a stranger — hidden, archived and client-owned builds are excluded, which is why the number here matches the catalog exactly rather than the number we have built. Pieces are counted only from reachable sites: the parts of a hidden site are hidden with it. Builds span 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-29. The page is regenerated on every deploy, so it cannot go stale.