February 2009/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
06 Feb 2009
- Total URLs tested:
115,844
- Total tests run:
37,671,660
- Total number of PDF's:
860
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.94%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.11%
- Pages missing a title:
4.00%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
43.98%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.22%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 317,625 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Fenwick (http://www.fenwick.co.uk/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DFS | 100.00 | 87.20 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 16.04 |
| Clinton Cards | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Vision Express | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Blacks | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| D & A (glasses) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 97.96 | 0.00 |
| Marshall Ward | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 95.20 | 0.80 |
| Harvey Nichols | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| choice | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Furniture Village | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Kelkoo | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Additions Direct | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 91.20 | 0.80 |
| Marks & Spencer | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Empire Stores | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Matches | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 86.40 | 1.60 |
| Waitrose | 83.20 | 0.80 |
| Morrisons | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Habitat | 80.80 | 10.40 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Majestic Wine | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 67.24 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 59.52 | 2.38 |
| Disney | 57.60 | 0.80 |
| Littlewoods Direct | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Kays | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 33.60 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Game | 26.40 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Bensons for Beds | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 16.80 | 0.80 |
| JJB Sports | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 16.00 | 0.80 |
| SCS | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Retail | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.26 | 0.00 |
| Trot2 | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Rosebys | 1.02 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Direct Specs | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Endless.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gap | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Outdoor Megastore | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pixmania | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Thorntons | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Adams
- Clinton Cards
- DFS
- Direct Specs
- Figleaves
- Freemans
- Furniture Village
- Gap
- Jessops
- JJB Sports
- Jones
- Robert Dyas
- Specsavers
- Trot2
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Direct Specs
- Endless.com
- Gap
- La Senza
- Laura Ashley
- Next
- Outdoor Megastore
- Pixmania
- Play.com
- Thorntons
- W H Smith
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
22.1% 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.
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
81.71% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
13.42% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.19% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.97% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.83% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.52% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.44% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.32% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.26% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.22% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
43.04% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
42.03% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.85% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.69% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.36% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
0.88% |
| file/url/badpath Illegal character in URL path section |
0.69% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.59% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.41% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.39% |