August 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
06 Aug 2007
- Total URLs tested:
93,910
- Total tests run:
30,528,992
- Total number of PDF's:
317
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.68%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.61%
- Pages missing a title:
2.63%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
55.86%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.53%
- Poorest code quality:
Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/) - 150,564 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jessops | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Tesco Direct | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 99.21 | 2.38 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 12.80 |
| Holland & Barrett | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 98.08 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| Vision Express | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 91.94 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Next | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 82.17 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 82.03 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 80.62 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 79.07 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 73.44 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Pets at Home | 72.09 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 67.44 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 61.54 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 61.39 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 59.18 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 58.91 | 13.95 |
| W H Smith | 57.36 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 48.41 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 41.73 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 40.48 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 36.80 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 34.78 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 33.86 | 0.00 |
| Game | 29.13 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 26.36 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 24.03 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 23.81 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 20.16 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.92 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 10.40 | 4.00 |
| House of Fraser | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 10.16 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 7.75 | 7.75 |
| Waitrose | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Direct Specs | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 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 |
| La Senza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 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 |
| Woolworths | 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
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amazon UK
- asos.com
- Direct Specs
- Dixons
- Ebuyer
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- J D Sports
- Jones
- La Senza
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
- Net a Porter
- P C World
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- Staples
- Thorntons
- Woolworths
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Gap
- Habitat
PDF testing
35.0% 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/badquery None |
53.83% |
| file/url/badpath None |
28.42% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.11% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.73% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
3.52% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.06% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.03% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.02% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.98% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.65% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
41.08% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
36.63% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.68% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.60% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
5.00% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.07% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.26% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.25% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.60% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.37% |