October 2009/UK - Top 50 Retailers
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Oct 2009
- Total URLs tested:
275,195
- Total tests run:
89,462,815
- Total number of PDF's:
940
- URLs failing functional tests:
29.02%
- Pages failing code standards:
91.79%
- Pages missing a title:
4.43%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
51.70%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.87%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 368,920 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 | 99.20 |
| Hamleys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Argos | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Harvey Nichols | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 94.87 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 84.80 | 0.80 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Disney | 72.00 | 0.80 |
| La Senza | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| HMV | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 65.60 | 0.80 |
| Wickes | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Very | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 48.00 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| N Brown Group plc | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| asos.com | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Next | 4.80 | 0.80 |
| Game | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Borders | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Currys | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| B&Q | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Firebox | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Harrods | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Play.com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Thorntons | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- La Senza
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Boots
- Dixons
- B&Q
- Firebox
- Harrods
- Play.com
- Staples
- Thorntons
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
11.3% 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 |
92.81% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
5.76% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.07% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.22% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.10% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.02% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.01% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.00% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.00% |
| file/html/noframes A <frameset> tag was found, but no <noframes> |
0.00% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
44.99% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
44.64% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.53% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
1.91% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
1.70% |
| file/url/badpath Illegal character in URL path section |
1.07% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.69% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.64% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.39% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
0.38% |