Retail September 2008

Error free sites

  • Figleaves

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Co-Op
  • Direct Specs
  • Endless.com
  • Figleaves
  • Goldsmiths
  • HMV
  • Laura Ashley
  • W H Smith

Excluded from index

  • Gap

Index facts

Sites tested: 04 Sep 2008
Total URLs tested: 119,265
Total tests run: 38,771,551
Total number of PDF's: 401
URLs failing functional tests: 5.98
Pages failing code standards: 89.05
Pages missing a title: 3.14
Pages failing accessibility level A: 46.04
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 46.04
Poorest code quality: M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) (http://www.mandco.com/) - 773,216 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.

66.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 49.51%
file/url/badquery 33.62%
file/url/offtop 8.25%
url/fetch/badcookie 2.63%
url/fetch/notfound 2.53%
file/html/longtitle 0.74%
file/html/notitle 0.63%
file/url/badfragment 0.55%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 0.32%
file/html/longmeta 0.30%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 45.10%
file/html/unknownentity 44.71%
file/html/tagnotallowed 2.97%
file/html/badvalue 2.71%
file/html/badattr 1.78%
file/html/closingunopened 0.94%
file/html/missingclose 0.63%
file/html/unknowntag 0.35%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.34%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.19%

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