December 2007/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Dec 2007
- Total URLs tested:
108,826
- Total tests run:
35,377,290
- Total number of PDF's:
340
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.12%
- Pages failing code standards:
88.79%
- Pages missing a title:
1.75%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
49.81%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.52%
- Poorest code quality:
Maplin Electronics (http://www.maplin.co.uk/) - 289,498 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 |
| Argos | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 99.20 | 3.20 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Vision Express | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 92.25 | 7.75 |
| Toys R Us | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Clinton Cards | 90.48 | 8.73 |
| Fenwick | 88.46 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| Next | 78.74 | 0.79 |
| John Lewis Stores | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 75.97 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 74.42 | 8.53 |
| Virgin Retail | 71.88 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 71.65 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 70.31 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 68.75 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 68.22 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 65.08 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 62.30 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 61.54 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 61.00 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 55.12 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 50.00 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 47.62 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 47.24 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 45.74 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 34.78 | 0.00 |
| Game | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 32.54 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 32.28 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 30.16 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 25.78 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 19.47 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 14.29 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 13.60 | 4.00 |
| Superdrug | 12.70 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 8.53 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 0.79 | 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 |
| Goldsmiths | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 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
- 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
- Goldsmiths
- Jones
- La Senza
- 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
32.9% 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 |
41.00% |
| file/url/badquery None |
38.78% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.53% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.47% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
4.30% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.53% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.21% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.01% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.80% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.79% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.40% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
40.07% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.92% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.37% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.04% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.44% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.98% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.42% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.63% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.35% |