June 2009/UK - Top 50 Retailers
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
19 Jun 2009
- Total URLs tested:
66,635
- Total tests run:
21,671,091
- Total number of PDF's:
566
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.23%
- Pages failing code standards:
92.96%
- Pages missing a title:
1.60%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
52.73%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.89%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 301,079 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 |
| Argos | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| Homebase | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Ted Baker | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 80.80 | 0.80 |
| Asda | 75.47 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 74.40 | 0.80 |
| HMV | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Littlewoods Direct | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 53.60 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Game | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 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.
- DFS
- B&Q
- Figleaves
- Halfords
- Net a Porter
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Boots
- B&Q
- Figleaves
- Next
- 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
13.2% 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 |
88.86% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.02% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.01% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.52% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.40% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.38% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.35% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.31% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.09% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.02% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
44.96% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
43.86% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
2.45% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.45% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.09% |
| file/url/badpath Illegal character in URL path section |
1.05% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
0.64% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.54% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.48% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.41% |