FWA was named the number 1 web award in the world in the Chicago Tribune's first World Wide Web Awards Award 2007, in which they "consider the scores of sites vying to become to Internet excellence what Oscar is to film excellence." They summised "It's a fun, fascinating place to visit, with the emphasis not on blather about awards but on sending visitors off to what they really want to see, cool new sites. If they're lucky, some of those sites will be as good as the Favourite Websites site itself, winner of our first Best Web Awards Award."