Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.92 is W Boyes & Co http://www.boyes.co.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Pownall Carpets
3rd Beds Direct
4th Bargain Booze
5th Walter Smith (Birmingham)
6th Jane Shilton

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Robert Dyas rising 279 places to rank 112 (Index of 4.30).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 239, Diesel (London)
Rising 223, Williams & Griffin
Rising 204, Suttons
Rising 185, Viking Direct
Rising 176, Long Tall Sally

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 20th February, in all we carried out 860,762,981 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Palmers (Great Yarmouth) was top, H&M had the fastest response time with The Bear Factory reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Hammicks Bookshops
2nd The Book People
3rd Acotis
4th Zara UK
5th Space NK

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2015 Q1/UK 500 Retail is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1098.

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.