March 2009/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Mar 2009
- Total URLs tested:
120,939
- Total tests run:
39,321,217
- Total number of PDF's:
617
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.48%
- Pages failing code standards:
88.39%
- Pages missing a title:
2.53%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
46.29%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.06%
- Poorest code quality:
Endless.com (http://www.endless.com/) - 337,379 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Anne Summers (http://www.annsummers.com/)
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 | 100.00 |
| Adams | 100.00 | 52.80 |
| Fenwick | 100.00 | 16.98 |
| Vision Express | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| Clinton Cards | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Blacks | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| H Samuel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Jessops | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Specsavers | 99.20 | 11.20 |
| Boots | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Holland & Barrett | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lakeland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Robert Dyas | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| British Home Stores | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| D & A (glasses) | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Apple iTunes | 97.96 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Superdrug | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Empire Stores | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| choice | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Goldsmiths | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Oddbins | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Kelkoo | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 91.20 | 0.80 |
| Additions Direct | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Matches | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Furniture Village | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Jones | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 83.20 | 1.60 |
| Habitat | 82.40 | 10.40 |
| Waitrose | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Marks & Spencer | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 80.80 | 3.20 |
| Majestic Wine | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 76.79 | 1.79 |
| Disney | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Early Learning Centre | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Marshall Ward | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Thresher | 71.93 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Kays | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Morrisons | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Focus | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods Direct | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 45.60 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 42.40 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Game | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 26.40 | 0.00 |
| Bargain Booze | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Bensons for Beds | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| J D Sports | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Republic | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Richer Sounds | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Freemans | 16.80 | 0.80 |
| Virgin Retail | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| SCS | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 12.00 | 0.80 |
| JJB Sports | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Packard Bell UK | 10.17 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Trot2 | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Dell EMEA | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| M&Co at Mackays (Scotland) | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Rosebys | 1.02 | 0.00 |
| Co-Op | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Outdoor Megastore | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Direct Specs | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Endless.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laura Ashley | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Maplin Electronics | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pixmania | 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
- Fenwick
- Freemans
- Furniture Village
- Jessops
- JJB Sports
- Jones
- Robert Dyas
- Trot2
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Direct Specs
- Endless.com
- Figleaves
- La Senza
- Laura Ashley
- Maplin Electronics
- Next
- Pixmania
- Thorntons
- W H Smith
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Gap
PDF testing
13.1% 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 |
77.97% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
15.30% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.27% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.30% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.04% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.65% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.49% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.49% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.19% |
| url/fetch/badstatus Bad HTTP status returned by server |
0.14% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
43.17% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
42.13% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.99% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.95% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.41% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
0.94% |
| file/url/badpath Illegal character in URL path section |
0.72% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.65% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.46% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.43% |