October 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Oct 2007
- Total URLs tested:
103,373
- Total tests run:
33,602,569
- Total number of PDF's:
244
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
88.64%
- Pages missing a title:
2.81%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
52.64%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.64%
- Poorest code quality:
Boots (http://www.boots.com/) - 279,143 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Habitat (http://www.habitat.net/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 99.21 | 2.38 |
| Jessops | 99.21 | 2.36 |
| Argos | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 96.83 | 0.79 |
| Comet UK | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 96.80 | 2.40 |
| Morrisons | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 93.65 | 0.79 |
| Vision Express | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| Next | 77.17 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 75.59 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 75.40 | 0.00 |
| Pets at Home | 72.87 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 70.54 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 62.86 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 61.54 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 56.82 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 56.59 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 50.39 | 6.98 |
| Firebox | 46.40 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 43.31 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 40.48 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 31.82 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 31.75 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 29.13 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 28.35 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 26.98 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 15.08 | 0.79 |
| Packard Bell UK | 11.50 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 9.52 | 5.56 |
| Maplin Electronics | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 4.69 | 0.78 |
| Dixons | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 2.33 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Game | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 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 |
| JJB Sports | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 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 |
| asos.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Direct Specs
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
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
- JJB Sports
- Jones
- Laura Ashley
- Net a Porter
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- Staples
- Thorntons
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Gap
PDF testing
46.3% 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 |
43.74% |
| file/url/badpath None |
30.56% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
11.73% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.27% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.59% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.34% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.03% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
0.72% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.71% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.65% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
42.06% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.48% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.83% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.53% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.73% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.61% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.71% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.53% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.94% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.27% |