2015 Q4/UK Retail 500 Websites : web benchmark : Asda Group (Wal-Mart) rises 324

03 Nov 2015

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Top site this quarter with an Index of 8.64 is W Boyes & Co http://www.boyes.co.uk/

Screenshot of W Boyes & Co

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Beds Direct
3rd Vivi
4th Racing Green
5th Vision Express
6th Futon Company

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Asda Group (Wal-Mart) rising 324 places to rank 19 (Index of 5.72).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 294, Heals
Rising 277, WJ Daniel & Co
Rising 252, Barrats
Rising 237, Agent Provocateur
Rising 176, Budget DIY

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 3rd November, in all we carried out 862,968,756 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally W Boyes & Co was top, Budgens had the fastest response time with Toymaster reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Acotis
2nd Zara UK
3rd The Book People
4th JH Haskins & Sons
5th The Works Holdings

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2015 Q4/UK 500 Retail is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1162.

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.

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