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Retail June 2007

Signet Group plc

Burberry
Comet

Sites tested:	05 Jun 2007
Total URLs tested:	13,342
Total tests run:	4,336,202
Total number of PDF's:	2
URLs failing functional tests:	5.37
Pages failing code standards:	92.33
Pages missing a title:	1.69
Pages failing accessibility level A:	42.48
Pages failing acessibility level AA:	42.48
Poorest code quality:	HMV (http://www.hmv.co.uk/) - 69,386 failures
Fastest overall average response time:	NEXT (http://www.next.co.uk/)

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.

0.00% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

	Total
file/url/badpath	46.06%
file/url/badquery	18.19%
url/fetch/badcookie	13.63%
file/html/longmeta	6.10%
file/html/longtitle	5.33%
file/html/badmeta	2.87%
url/fetch/unknownstatus	1.69%
file/url/badfragment	1.43%
file/html/notitle	1.43%
url/fetch/notfound	1.28%

	Total
file/html/badentity	42.58%
file/html/unknownentity	41.73%
file/html/tagnotallowed	4.96%
file/html/badattr	3.48%
file/html/closingunopened	2.72%
file/html/missingclose	1.71%
file/html/badvalue	1.65%
file/html/unknowntag	0.49%
file/html/unnecessaryclose	0.41%
file/html/repeatedattr	0.16%