July 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Jul 2007
- Total URLs tested:
103,174
- Total tests run:
33,538,414
- Total number of PDF's:
264
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.19%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.30%
- Pages missing a title:
2.97%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
56.73%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.49%
- Poorest code quality:
Boots (http://www.boots.com/) - 111,782 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Bargain Booze (http://www.bargainbooze.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tesco Direct | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 13.60 |
| Jessops | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Holland & Barrett | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Vision Express | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Apple iTunes | 91.67 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 89.68 | 0.79 |
| British Home Stores | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Next | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 71.88 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 70.54 | 0.00 |
| Pets at Home | 70.31 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 68.99 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 67.39 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 65.87 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 63.78 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 63.49 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 62.79 | 0.78 |
| Land of Leather | 62.14 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 55.04 | 13.18 |
| Harvey Nichols | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 51.18 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 48.03 | 0.00 |
| Game | 48.03 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 37.30 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 34.78 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 23.44 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 17.05 | 0.78 |
| Focus | 14.96 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 8.53 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 8.00 | 4.00 |
| E Bay | 7.87 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 7.81 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 6.20 | 8.53 |
| Boots | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Direct Specs | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Endless.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Furniture Village | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rosebys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Thorntons | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- DFS
- Direct Specs
- JJB Sports
- Majestic Wine
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amazon UK
- Anne Summers
- asos.com
- Direct Specs
- Ebuyer
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- J D Sports
- Jones
- Laura Ashley
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
- Net a Porter
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- Staples
- Thorntons
- Virgin Retail
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- adams.co.uk
- Debenhams
- Gap
- Habitat
- Screwfix
PDF testing
40.1% 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 |
52.09% |
| file/url/badquery None |
32.17% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
5.52% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.09% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.36% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.16% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.94% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.57% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.52% |
| file/url/offtop None |
0.44% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
38.32% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
35.36% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.70% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.39% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.92% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.86% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.75% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.83% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.25% |