XHTMLChallenge.com - Website Code Challenge

Think you’ve got the best website design? Find out with XHTML Challenge, a new website that lets you compare your website with others based on code and validation. Anybody can create a challenge. Simply register, enter the URLs of the sites you want to compare and challenge away. Once the challenge is up, anyone can vote for their pick. After a certain amount of time, the site with the most votes is declared the winner. Voting criteria fall under: doctype, validation, markup ratio, content ratio, and whitespace ratio. So if you’ve got a website you think is absolutely tops and deserves to win an award, validate your beliefs on XHTML Challenge. It’s free and requires zero effort to challenge yourself.

"XHTML Challenge is comparing websites based on validation and code markup in order to choose and vote the best coded sites"

XHTML Challenge provides a new and interesting way to rank websites. Anybody can participate and vote. It’s a good tool to see where your website really stand among the masses.

Is XHTML Challenge a good way to judge a site, especially with limited criteria like ratio of white space or markup ratio? Will it just be a fad site that won’t really gain any traction outside an inial smattering of curious onlookers?