September 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Sep 2007
- Total URLs tested:
107,275
- Total tests run:
34,869,393
- Total number of PDF's:
193
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.76%
- Pages failing code standards:
91.06%
- Pages missing a title:
2.63%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
55.42%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.75%
- Poorest code quality:
Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/) - 160,664 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Carphone Warehouse (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/)
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 |
| O2 | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Vision Express | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 80.62 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Pets at Home | 71.32 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 69.05 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 66.41 | 12.50 |
| Land of Leather | 64.22 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 61.54 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 59.18 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 57.94 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 51.18 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 51.16 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 48.84 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 44.44 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Game | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 31.82 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 26.98 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 23.44 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 18.90 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 16.41 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 14.06 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.17 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 8.73 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 7.94 | 3.97 |
| Early Learning Centre | 7.03 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 3.12 | 1.56 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 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 |
| Hamleys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| JJB 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 |
| Phones 4u | 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.
- Tesco Direct
- Direct Specs
- JJB Sports
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amazon UK
- asos.com
- Direct Specs
- Ebuyer
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- Hamleys
- J D Sports
- JJB Sports
- Jones
- La Senza
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
- Net a Porter
- P C World
- Phones 4u
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- Staples
- Thorntons
- Woolworths
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Gap
- Habitat
PDF testing
49.2% 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 |
46.19% |
| file/url/badquery None |
36.30% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
5.56% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.23% |
| file/url/offtop None |
3.02% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.02% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.92% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.89% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.87% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.54% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
43.11% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.71% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.81% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.76% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.58% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.33% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.41% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.04% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.49% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.30% |