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Retail June 2008

Error free sites

  • DFS
  • Figleaves
  • Top Shop

Failing A & AA 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

  • Boots
  • Gap

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 47.19
Poorest code quality: Maplin Electronics (http://www.maplin.co.uk/) - 501,594 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Fenwick (http://www.fenwick.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.

73.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 44.62%
file/url/badquery 36.90%
file/url/offtop 9.83%
url/fetch/notfound 2.66%
url/fetch/badcookie 2.50%
file/html/longtitle 0.63%
file/html/notitle 0.42%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 0.42%
file/html/longmeta 0.41%
file/url/badfragment 0.38%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 40.01%
file/html/unknownentity 39.92%
file/html/badvalue 4.99%
file/html/tagnotallowed 3.60%
file/html/closingunopened 2.89%
file/html/badattr 2.69%
file/html/missingclose 2.55%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 2.27%
file/html/unknowntag 0.46%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.28%