May 2006/Retail



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    24 May 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    -

  • Total tests run:

    -

  • Total number of PDF's:

    -

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    None%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    None%

  • Pages missing a title:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    None%

  • Poorest code quality:

    WH Smith (http://www.whsmith.co.uk/) - 39,774 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    NEXT (http://www.next.co.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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
Marks &​ Spencer91.410.00
HMV84.380.00
Comet78.910.00
Matalan56.350.00
NEXT34.130.00
The Carphone Warehou​se26.190.00
Argos9.380.00
Boots3.880.78
B&​Q1.590.00
Carpetright0.000.00
Signet Group plc 0.000.00
WH Smith0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Carpetright
  • Signet Group plc
  • WH Smith
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Burberry
  • Dixons
  • Halfords
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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
47.91%
file/url/badpath
None
44.70%
file/html/longmeta
None
3.28%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.23%
file/url/offtop
None
1.07%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.38%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.33%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
0.22%
file/html/notitle
None
0.14%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.14%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
40.04%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
38.74%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
7.89%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
4.49%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
2.70%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.18%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
1.68%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.43%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.44%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
0.30%