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Retail November 2008

Error free sites

  • DFS

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Co-Op
  • Direct Specs
  • Endless.com
  • Kelkoo
  • Land of Leather
  • Laura Ashley
  • Pixmania
  • Play.com
  • Thorntons
  • Vodafone
  • W H Smith

Excluded from index

  • Gap
  • Toys R Us

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 Nov 2008
Total URLs tested: 122,459
Total tests run: 39,810,693
Total number of PDF's: 443
URLs failing functional tests: 6.76
Pages failing code standards: 87.24
Pages missing a title: 5.11
Pages failing accessibility level A: 45.67
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 45.67
Poorest code quality: Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 328,815 failures
Fastest overall average response time: La Senza (http://www.lasenza.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.

31.2% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 42.02%
file/url/badquery 39.22%
file/url/offtop 7.02%
url/fetch/badcookie 3.97%
url/fetch/notfound 3.36%
file/html/notitle 1.24%
file/html/longtitle 1.14%
file/html/badmeta 0.61%
file/html/longmeta 0.39%
url/fetch/exception 0.31%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 43.43%
file/html/unknownentity 42.51%
file/html/badvalue 3.75%
file/html/tagnotallowed 3.57%
file/html/badattr 1.89%
file/html/closingunopened 1.82%
file/html/missingclose 1.30%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.05%
file/html/unknowntag 0.25%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.15%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford