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Retail January 2008

Error free sites

  • Tesco Direct

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Amazon UK
  • Anne Summers
  • asos.com
  • Direct Specs
  • Dixons
  • Ebuyer
  • Endless.com
  • Figleaves
  • Furniture Village
  • Goldsmiths
  • Jones
  • Net a Porter
  • P C World
  • Play.com
  • Rosebys
  • Thorntons
  • W H Smith
  • Woolworths

Excluded from index

  • Boots
  • Gap

Index facts

Sites tested: 04 Jan 2008
Total URLs tested: 109,270
Total tests run: 35,521,590
Total number of PDF's: 340
URLs failing functional tests: 5.61
Pages failing code standards: 89.79
Pages missing a title: 1.74
Pages failing accessibility level A: 49.02
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 49.02
Poorest code quality: Maplin Electronics (http://www.maplin.co.uk/) - 300,092 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Habitat (http://www.habitat.net/)

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.

40.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 48.47%
file/url/badquery 36.35%
file/url/offtop 4.02%
url/fetch/notfound 3.90%
url/fetch/badcookie 3.12%
file/url/badfragment 0.88%
file/html/longtitle 0.66%
file/html/badmeta 0.61%
file/html/notitle 0.51%
file/html/longmeta 0.48%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 40.50%
file/html/badentity 40.39%
file/html/tagnotallowed 4.63%
file/html/badvalue 4.39%
file/html/badattr 3.17%
file/html/closingunopened 2.31%
file/html/missingclose 1.85%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.34%
file/html/unknowntag 0.75%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.28%