March 2010/UK - Top 50 Retailers
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
02 Mar 2010
- Total URLs tested:
323,998
- Total tests run:
105,320,462
- Total number of PDF's:
812
- URLs failing functional tests:
26.48%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.15%
- Pages missing a title:
3.16%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
51.30%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.38%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 366,538 failures
- Fastest average response time:
DFS (http://www.dfs.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 |
|---|---|---|
| DFS | 100.00 | 20.80 |
| Currys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dixons | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| P C World | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hamleys | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| La Senza | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Top Shop | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Next | 96.80 | 2.40 |
| Harvey Nichols | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Asda | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| QVCUK.com | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Figleaves | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Toys R Us | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Comet UK | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Homebase | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 78.40 | 0.80 |
| Very | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Wickes | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Waitrose | 73.60 | 0.80 |
| Disney | 71.20 | 0.80 |
| HMV | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| House of Fraser | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| John Lewis Stores | 53.60 | 0.00 |
| Amazon UK | 50.40 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 42.40 | 0.00 |
| Ebuyer | 35.20 | 0.00 |
| Ikea | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| Ted Baker | 27.20 | 2.40 |
| asos.com | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| E Bay | 14.40 | 0.80 |
| Debenhams | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Halfords | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Game | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| J D Williams | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Direct | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Net a Porter | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| W H Smith | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Argos | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Waterstones | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Anne Summers | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| B&Q | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Boots | 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.
- DFS
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Anne Summers
- Boots
- B&Q
- Firebox
- Harrods
- Play.com
- Staples
- Thorntons
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Borders
PDF testing
12.6% 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 |
94.03% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
4.22% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
0.92% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.35% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.30% |
| url/fetch/badstatus Bad HTTP status returned by server |
0.15% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.02% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.01% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.01% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.00% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
44.03% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
43.75% |
| file/url/badpath Illegal character in URL path section |
2.86% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.43% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
1.77% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.73% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.17% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.96% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
0.46% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.33% |