September 2006/Retail
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
19 Sep 2006
- Total URLs tested:
11,896
- Total tests run:
3,866,850
- Total number of PDF's:
25
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.31%
- Pages failing code standards:
85.71%
- Pages missing a title:
4.23%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
48.73%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.57%
- Poorest code quality:
Dixons (http://www.dixons.co.uk/) - 58,357 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Carpetright (http://www.carpetright.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 86.82 | 0.00 |
| Comet | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| NEXT | 42.06 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 37.21 | 0.00 |
| The Carphone Warehouse | 23.02 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 21.43 | 18.25 |
| Dixons | 11.63 | 0.00 |
| Argos | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- WH Smith
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Burberry
- Halfords
PDF testing
32.0% 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.
| file/url/badpath None |
52.21% |
| file/url/badquery None |
22.25% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
10.65% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.62% |
| file/url/offtop None |
2.74% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.66% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
2.27% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.37% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.24% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
0.16% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
36.26% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
35.01% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
11.27% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.75% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.56% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.09% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.20% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.17% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.12% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.48% |