Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.94 is Biogen Idec http://www.biogenidec.com/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Kyowa Hakko Kirin UK
3rd Actelion UK
4th Cytogen
5th Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Europe
6th Debiopharm

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Bial Portela rising 117 places to rank 80 (Index of 4.46).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 92, Sawai Pharmaceutical
Rising 82, Emergent BioSolutions
Rising 72, CinnaGen
Rising 66, Daiichi-Sankyo
Rising 60, Cubist Pharmaceuticals

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 19th December, in all we carried out 93,679,287 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Biogen Idec was top, Merz UK had the fastest response time with Kyorin Holdings reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Apotex
2nd Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Europe
3rd Maxygen
4th Pharmacosmos
5th Orion Pharma

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/Global Life Sci. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1086.

Sitemorse INDEX

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