November 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Nov 2007
- Total URLs tested:
89,378
- Total tests run:
29,053,310
- Total number of PDF's:
210
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.51%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.62%
- Pages missing a title:
2.45%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
50.14%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.52%
- Poorest code quality:
Endless.com (http://www.endless.com/) - 151,551 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| Argos | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 96.03 | 1.59 |
| Morrisons | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Vision Express | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 89.60 | 8.00 |
| Specsavers | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Next | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 83.72 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 81.25 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 78.12 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 74.42 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 61.90 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 61.90 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 61.42 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 60.94 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 60.61 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 57.03 | 16.41 |
| Littlewoods | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 52.38 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 48.03 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 36.80 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 35.71 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 32.28 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 30.71 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 30.43 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 22.22 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Game | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 14.73 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 14.63 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 14.40 | 4.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 7.14 | 0.79 |
| Oddbins | 5.43 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.95 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 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 |
| House of Fraser | 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 |
| Maplin Electronics | 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 |
| 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
- House of Fraser
- M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
- Top Shop
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amazon UK
- Anne Summers
- asos.com
- Direct Specs
- Dixons
- Ebuyer
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- House of Fraser
- J D Sports
- JJB Sports
- Jones
- La Senza
- Maplin Electronics
- Net a Porter
- P C World
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- Thorntons
- Woolworths
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Boots
- Gap
- Pets at Home
PDF testing
51.0% 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 |
40.19% |
| file/url/badpath None |
37.45% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
6.08% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.78% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.41% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.14% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.11% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.08% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.93% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.80% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
43.86% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.87% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.80% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.38% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.16% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.27% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.87% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.69% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.35% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.34% |