Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.08 is NorgesGruppen http://www.spar.no/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd B&Q
3rd Edion Corporation
4th Spar Group
5th Casey's General Stores
6th ICA AB

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was B&Q rising 190 places to rank 2 (Index of 6.12).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 100, Best Buy
Rising 97, Burlington Coat Factory Investments Holdings
Rising 84, Ruddick Corporation
Rising 77, BIM (Birlesik Magazalar A.S.)
Rising 71, Koninklijke Ahold N.V

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 29th December, in all we carried out 389,816,089 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB was top, Next had the fastest response time with SuperValu reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Lotte Shopping
2nd Inditex S.A
3rd Defense Commissary Agency
4th Groupe Auchan SA
5th Bauhaus

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/Global 250 Retailers is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1087.

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 "Global Top 250 Retailers" INDEX.

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