2010 Q1/Global Top 250 Retailers
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Feb 2010
- Total URLs tested:
611,808
- Total tests run:
199,162,496
- Total number of PDF's:
12,496
- URLs failing functional tests:
16.61%
- Pages failing code standards:
84.28%
- Pages missing a title:
4.32%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
54.41%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.37%
- Poorest code quality:
Costco Wholesale (http://www.costco.com/) - 345,070 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Arcadia Group Limited (http://www.arcadiagroup.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 62.40 |
| Mercadona, S.A. | 100.00 | 62.40 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Arcadia Group Limited | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Axfood | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Blokker Holding | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Casino Guichard-Perrachon S.A. | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Compagnie Financière Richemont SA | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Douglas Holding | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Groupe Adeo | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Groupe Auchan SA | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Groupe Vivarte | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Iceland Foods Group Ltd | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Otto Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rite Aid Corporation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ross Stores | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Spar Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stater Bros | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Williams-Sonoma | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Game Group | 99.20 | 8.80 |
| Carrefour S.A. | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Deichmann Group | 98.40 | 13.60 |
| Next | 98.40 | 2.40 |
| Celesio AG | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wesfarmers Limited | 98.33 | 0.83 |
| Apple | 97.60 | 2.40 |
| Apoteket AB | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Eldorado LLC | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| KF Gruppen | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| dm-drogerie markt | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| H2O Retailing Corporation | 96.80 | 1.60 |
| J Sainsbury Plc | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Metro Group DE | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| SPAR Ãsterreich | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Media LLC | 96.04 | 0.00 |
| Defense Commissary Agency | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods plc/Primark | 95.20 | 0.80 |
| Shimamura | 95.20 | 0.80 |
| Debenhams | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Dillard's | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| ITM Developpement Internationale | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths Ltd | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Rewe-Zentral | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Whole Foods Market | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Groupe Galeries Lafayette SA | 93.10 | 0.00 |
| Grupo Eroski | 92.80 | 33.60 |
| X5 Retail Group N.V. | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| SuperValu | 92.31 | 0.00 |
| Daiei Inc | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Beisia Group | 91.20 | 2.40 |
| NorgesGruppen | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Praktiker | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Takashimaya Company | 88.80 | 0.80 |
| Dell | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| FEMSA Comercio | 88.00 | 1.60 |
| Valor Co Ltd | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Esselunga S.p.A. | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Tesco plc | 85.60 | 18.40 |
| Co-operative Group | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Conad Consorzio Nazionale | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| AEON Company Limited | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Grupo Jerónimo Martins | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Seven & I Holdings | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Maxeda | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Belk | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| DCM Japan Holdings | 81.25 | 41.67 |
| Inditex S.A | 80.80 | 8.80 |
| Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb | 80.80 | 1.60 |
| The Tengelmann Group | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Coop Group Switzerland | 79.20 | 12.00 |
| Aldi | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Sheetz | 78.00 | 0.00 |
| East Japan Railway Company | 77.60 | 3.20 |
| Limited Brands | 77.60 | 1.60 |
| PPR S.A. | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Izumiya Co Ltd | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Marui Group | 76.54 | 0.00 |
| Kwik Trip | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Tokyu Corporation | 72.80 | 16.80 |
| AutoZone Inc. | 71.20 | 0.80 |
| HMV Group | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Safeway | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Koninklijke Ahold N.V | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Lojas Americanas | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Edion Corporation | 68.00 | 24.80 |
| Maxima Grupe | 67.71 | 0.00 |
| Dunnes Stores | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| Barnes & Noble | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Meijer | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| WM Morrison | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| Nordstrom | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| The Kroger Co | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| ICA AB | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Partnership Plc | 49.60 | 0.80 |
| Sonae | 47.66 | 0.00 |
| Loblaw Companies Limited | 47.20 | 0.80 |
| Lotte Shopping | 45.60 | 0.00 |
| RaceTrac Petroleum | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Jim Pattison Group | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| Schwarz Unternehmens Treuhand | 41.94 | 3.23 |
| Bic Camera Inc. | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Hy-Vee | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| The Home Depot | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| El Corte Inglés | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Fa. Anton Schlecker | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Yamada Denki | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Uny (Apita) | 35.20 | 2.40 |
| SHV Holdings N.V. / Makro | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| Publix Super Markets | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Amazon.com | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| The IKEA Group | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| J. Front Retailing | 29.51 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| HORNBACH-Baumarkt | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Wegmans Food Markets | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| BIM (Birlesik Magazalar A.S.) | 25.60 | 2.40 |
| Massmart Holdings | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Shinsegae | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Target | 24.00 | 2.40 |
| Fast Retailing | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| OfficeMax | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Roundy's Supermarkets | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| Kesko | 21.60 | 0.80 |
| QuikTrip Corporation | 20.80 | 10.40 |
| Systeme U Centrale Nationale | 20.80 | 2.40 |
| MatsumotoKiyoshi | 19.35 | 0.00 |
| Dalian Dashang Group | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Dirk Rossmann | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| J.C. Penney | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Metro | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Winn Dixie Stores | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Casey's General Stores | 18.18 | 0.00 |
| Bailian (Brilliance) Group | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Kohl's Corporation | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| Abercrombie & Fitch | 14.40 | 2.40 |
| Don Quijote Co. Ltd. | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| Giant Eagle | 12.80 | 0.80 |
| CP All | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| El Puerto de Liverpool | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| H.E. Butt Grocery Company | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Raley's | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| RONA | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Izumi Co Ltd | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Office Depot | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Delhaize Group | 8.80 | 2.40 |
| Dollar Tree Stores | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Suning Appliance | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Kojima | 8.00 | 0.80 |
| Heiwado | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| President Chain Corporation | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Edeka Zentrale | 7.20 | 0.80 |
| Wawa | 6.40 | 0.80 |
| Distribucion y Servicio D&S SA | 6.06 | 0.00 |
| RadioShack Corporation | 5.88 | 0.00 |
| Army & Air Force Exchange Service | 5.60 | 0.80 |
| BJ's Wholesale Club | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Golub Corporation/Price Chopper Supermarkets | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Save Mart Supermarkets | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Alimantation Couche-Tard Inc. | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Luxottica Group S.p.A. | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Boots | 3.20 | 1.60 |
| Controladora Comercial Mexicana S.A. de C.V. | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Grupo Pao de Acucar | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Isetan | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Empire Company | 2.82 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Farm International Holdings | 2.74 | 0.00 |
| Neiman Marcus | 2.40 | 1.60 |
| Finiper s.p.a | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Maruetsu Inc | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Staples | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| The TJX Companies | 1.90 | 0.00 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Borders Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Cencosud S.A. | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Systembolaget | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Arcandor | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| O'Reilly Automative | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Bauhaus | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Best Buy | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Big Lots | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Blockbuster | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Centres Distributeurs E. Leclerc | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| China Resources Enterprise | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dansk Supermarked A/S | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dick's Sporting Goods | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dollar General Corporation | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| FDB (Coop Danmark AS) | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Globus Holding | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Michaels Stores | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| PetSmart | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Poslovni system Mercator | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| S Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Shoprite Holdings S. Africa | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| AS Watson & Company | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Advance Auto Parts | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Albertson's | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Burlington Coat Factory Investments Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| C&A Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Canadian Tire Corporation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Casas Bahia SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Family Dollar Stores | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Foot Locker | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| GameStop | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gome Home Appliance Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Joshin Denki Co Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LVMH | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lagardere Services Asia Pacific | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Life Corporation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Louis Delhaize S.A. | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lowe's Companies | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Migros Genossenschafts Bund | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Migros Turk | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OJSC Magnit | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Organizacion Soriana | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pick ân Pay Stores | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ruddick Corporation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Bon-Ton Stores | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Pantry | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Toys âRâ Us | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Yodobashi Camera | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Bauhaus
- Bed Bath and Beyond
- C&A Europe
- Dollar Tree Stores
- The Game Group
- Finiper s.p.a
- Poslovni system Mercator
- Ross Stores
- Ruddick Corporation
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Joshin Denki Co Ltd
- Advance Auto Parts
- Albertson's
- AS Watson & Company
- The Bon-Ton Stores
- Burlington Coat Factory Investments Holdings
- C&A Europe
- Canadian Tire Corporation
- Casas Bahia SA
- Family Dollar Stores
- Foot Locker
- GameStop
- Gome Home Appliance Group
- Life Corporation
- Louis Delhaize S.A.
- Lowe's Companies
- Lagardere Services Asia Pacific
- LVMH
- OJSC Magnit
- Migros Genossenschafts Bund
- Migros Turk
- Pick ân Pay Stores
- Ruddick Corporation
- The Pantry
- Toys âRâ Us
- Wal-Mart Stores
- Yodobashi Camera
- Organizacion Soriana
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Best Denki Co. Ltd.
- Ets Franz Colruyt S.A.
- Coop Italy
- Coop Norden
- Euroset Group
- S.A.C.I. Falabella
- The Gap
- Gruppo Pam SPA
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Katz Group
- K's Holdings Corporation
- MenardU.S.
- Oxylane Groupe
- Reitangruppen AS
- Shoppers Drug Mart
- WinCo Foods
- XXXLutz Group
PDF testing
18.1% 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 |
92.13% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.11% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
2.75% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.80% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.32% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
0.17% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.15% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.14% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.13% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.11% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
40.11% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.89% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.25% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.94% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.94% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
1.99% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.77% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.18% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.17% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.73% |