Top site this quarter with an Index of 8.28 is Mexx http://www.mexx.com/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Pownall Carpets
3rd Bargain Booze
4th W Boyes & Co
5th Hammonds Furniture
6th Jane Shilton

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was B&Q rising 372 places to rank 18 (Index of 6.30).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 349, M & Co
Rising 335, Schuh
Rising 217, Theo Fennell
Rising 208, Bally Group (UK)
Rising 197, Laura Ashley Holdings

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 20th November, in all we carried out 894,094,318 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Pumpkin Patch was top, Dulux had the fastest response time with The Bear Factory reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Zara UK
2nd Divertimenti
3rd Williams & Griffin
4th The Book People
5th Albemarble & Bond Holdings

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/UK 500 Retail is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1081.

Sitemorse INDEX

HOW? Using our software, we look at each site individually, mapping out every combination of every one of the top 125 pages and complete around 1,200 tests, checks and measures across User Experience (UX), Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Search Capability (SEO). Against the results, our benchmarking methodology is applied to provide a ranked table - the results are then published as the "UK Retail 500 Websites" INDEX.

WHY? The quarterly INDEX Website Review looks at major public and private sectors as the independent benchmark identifying how websites are performing, meeting compliance levels and satisfying their users. It's also a key indicator for website managers who, while always wanting to be at the top of their game, could be hampered by poor-performing suppliers, non-compliant legacy content or content management systems that often fail to spot errors affecting user experience.

Our services provide you with true 'digital insight', ceaselessly monitoring your online content and pointing you to areas that could be potential problems for you, your clients, and your stakeholders.

Needing no installation or involvement from your in-house IT teams, our services will run alongside your content management systems:

- Helping make your customer journeys good ones, leaving your clients and online contacts wanting to come back.
- Keeping you always ahead of the curve on the latest online legislation that could affect you.
- Protecting your organisation and your web users from online threats.

We offer a confidential internal 'company wide' website testing and benchmarking service - allowing you to review the position of all the sites in your organisation. Contact us to find out more.