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Retail October 2008

Error free sites

  • DFS

Failing A & AA on every page

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

Excluded from index

  • Gap

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 Oct 2008
Total URLs tested: 119,967
Total tests run: 39,002,301
Total number of PDF's: 501
URLs failing functional tests: 5.68
Pages failing code standards: 89.57
Pages missing a title: 2.47
Pages failing accessibility level A: 46.25
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 46.25
Poorest code quality: M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) (http://www.mandco.com/) - 347,538 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Carphone Warehouse (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/)

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.

27.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 49.89%
file/url/badquery 35.16%
file/url/offtop 6.71%
url/fetch/badcookie 3.17%
url/fetch/notfound 1.88%
file/html/longtitle 0.76%
file/html/badmeta 0.51%
file/html/notitle 0.49%
url/fetch/exception 0.31%
file/html/longmeta 0.29%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 42.73%
file/html/unknownentity 42.32%
file/html/tagnotallowed 4.00%
file/html/badvalue 3.37%
file/html/badattr 2.02%
file/html/closingunopened 1.94%
file/html/missingclose 1.52%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.19%
file/html/unknowntag 0.36%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.21%