March 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Mar 2007
- Total URLs tested:
11,635
- Total tests run:
3,782,467
- Total number of PDF's:
42
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.31%
- Pages failing code standards:
84.41%
- Pages missing a title:
3.19%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
33.50%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.81%
- Poorest code quality:
B&Q Online (http://www.diy.com/) - 65,319 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Carpetright (http://www.carpetright.co.uk/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
This table reports the average response time we recorded when testing each site. A response time above 0.7 seconds can have a negative effect on user experience.
This table reports the percentage of pages on the sites we tested that passed automated WCAG 1.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).
| Organisation | Avg. Response | Download (kB/s) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| NEXT | 96.06 | 1.57 |
| Argos | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 71.88 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 70.63 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 59.69 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 7.87 | 0.79 |
| The Carphone Warehouse | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 3.97 | 0.00 |
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Burberry
- Comet
PDF testing
14.3% of checked PDFs were not tagged for accessibility.
Sitemorse performs twenty eight checks on PDF documents as part of our website benchmarking to ensure users do not experience problems such as broken links, or failing email addresses - we are also the first to test the accessibility compliance of PDF's.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badpath None |
67.24% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
9.25% |
| file/url/badquery None |
7.07% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
5.65% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.18% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.01% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.88% |
| file/url/offtop None |
1.88% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.60% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.39% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
40.76% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
39.71% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.11% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.94% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.75% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.33% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.38% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.21% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.38% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.36% |