June 2008/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Jun 2008
- Total URLs tested:
114,370
- Total tests run:
37,179,220
- Total number of PDF's:
345
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.73%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.35%
- Pages missing a title:
1.72%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
47.19%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.62%
- Poorest code quality:
Maplin Electronics (http://www.maplin.co.uk/) - 501,594 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Anne Summers (http://www.annsummers.com/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton Cards | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| T-Mobile | 100.00 | 2.34 |
| Tesco Direct | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| DFS | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 98.44 | 0.78 |
| Top Shop | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 97.62 | 3.17 |
| Vision Express | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| Next | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Fenwick | 88.46 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Blacks | 86.05 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 84.50 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Habitat | 82.54 | 9.52 |
| Majestic Wine | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 78.29 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 73.64 | 3.88 |
| B&Q | 70.54 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 69.12 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 66.14 | 0.00 |
| Land of Leather | 64.55 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 59.38 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 50.79 | 0.79 |
| J D Sports | 50.40 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 48.44 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 48.06 | 0.00 |
| Game | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 43.31 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 34.78 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 28.35 | 3.94 |
| Mothercare | 23.44 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 22.48 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 12.28 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 11.20 | 0.80 |
| Early Learning Centre | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 8.73 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 4.69 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 1.96 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Thorntons | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Direct Specs | 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 |
| HMV | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rosebys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- DFS
- Figleaves
- Top Shop
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- asos.com
- Co-Op
- Direct Specs
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- Furniture Village
- Goldsmiths
- HMV
- La Senza
- Laura Ashley
- Rosebys
- W H Smith
- Wickes
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Boots
- Gap
PDF testing
73.9% 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 |
44.62% |
| file/url/badquery None |
36.90% |
| file/url/offtop None |
9.83% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
2.66% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
2.50% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.63% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.42% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.42% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.41% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
0.38% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
40.01% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
39.92% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.99% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.60% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.89% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.69% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.55% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.27% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.46% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.28% |