February 2008/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Feb 2008
- Total URLs tested:
90,379
- Total tests run:
29,381,911
- Total number of PDF's:
336
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.98%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.59%
- Pages missing a title:
2.00%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
50.58%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.40%
- Poorest code quality:
Republic (http://republic.co.uk/) - 307,053 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 |
| Tesco Direct | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vision Express | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 96.80 | 4.00 |
| Toys R Us | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 94.53 | 2.34 |
| Wickes | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 91.47 | 8.53 |
| Clinton Cards | 90.48 | 10.32 |
| Fenwick | 88.46 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 83.72 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 82.17 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 73.23 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 72.87 | 4.65 |
| Blacks | 71.88 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 69.77 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 67.19 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 65.08 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 64.86 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 59.65 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 47.24 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 45.24 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 38.46 | 0.00 |
| Game | 38.10 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 36.22 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 34.13 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 31.75 | 3.97 |
| Early Learning Centre | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 22.66 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 17.46 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 15.50 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 11.81 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 8.00 | 8.00 |
| JJB Sports | 7.81 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Thorntons | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 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 |
| Goldsmiths | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rosebys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 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
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amazon UK
- asos.com
- Direct Specs
- Ebuyer
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- Goldsmiths
- Jones
- La Senza
- Net a Porter
- Play.com
- Rosebys
- W H Smith
- Woolworths
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Boots
- Gap
PDF testing
47.0% 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 |
47.37% |
| file/url/badpath None |
33.50% |
| file/url/offtop None |
8.51% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.67% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.30% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.16% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
0.93% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.83% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.68% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.65% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
43.31% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
43.25% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.73% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.37% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.20% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.06% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.57% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.56% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.32% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.29% |