January 2007/Retail



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    04 Jan 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    11,630

  • Total tests run:

    3,780,374

  • Total number of PDF's:

    24

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.78%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    85.97%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.99%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    42.77%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.88%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Boots (http://www.boots.co.uk/) - 64,000 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Carpetright (http://www.carpetright.co.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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
Carpetright100.000.00
Signet Group plc 100.000.00
NEXT95.351.55
Marks &​ Spencer86.720.00
HMV78.910.00
B&​Q76.190.00
Matalan69.840.00
Halfords68.500.00
WH Smith61.720.00
Argos11.020.00
Dixons4.760.00
Boots3.200.00
The Carphone Warehou​se2.340.00
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Burberry
  • Comet
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PDF testing

25.0% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badpath
None
67.47%
file/url/badscheme
None
8.37%
file/url/badquery
None
7.28%
file/html/longmeta
None
6.02%
file/url/offtop
None
2.18%
file/html/notitle
None
2.09%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.70%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.31%
file/url/badfragment
None
1.22%
url/fetch/badport
Server port in URL must be numerical
0.78%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
36.13%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
34.95%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
11.24%
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
4.82%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.39%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
1.26%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.21%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.75%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.41%