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Accountability for compliance, web estate wide.

Retail November 2007

Error free sites

  • Tesco Direct
  • Direct Specs
  • House of Fraser
  • M&Co at Mackays (Scotland)
  • Top Shop

Failing A & AA 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

  • Boots
  • Gap
  • Pets at Home

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 50.14
Poorest code quality: Endless.com (http://www.endless.com/) - 151,551 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Bargain Booze (http://www.bargainbooze.co.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

51.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 40.19%
file/url/badpath 37.45%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 6.08%
file/url/offtop 4.78%
url/fetch/badcookie 4.41%
file/url/badfragment 1.14%
file/html/longtitle 1.11%
file/html/notitle 1.08%
file/html/badmeta 0.93%
file/html/longmeta 0.80%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 43.86%
file/html/unknownentity 40.87%
file/html/tagnotallowed 4.80%
file/html/badvalue 3.38%
file/html/badattr 3.16%
file/html/closingunopened 1.27%
file/html/unknowntag 0.87%
file/html/missingclose 0.69%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.35%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.34%