Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.94 is Chesterfield College http://www.chesterfield.ac.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Anglia Ruskin University
3rd Warwickshire College
4th Henley College Coventry
5th FutureLearn
6th The University of Manchester

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Anglia Ruskin University rising 305 places to rank 2 (Index of 7.56).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 249, Imperial College London
Rising 244, Lakes College - West Cumbria
Rising 208, Coventry University
Rising 205, Accrington & Rossendale College
Rising 180, NESCOT, Surrey

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 14th January, in all we carried out 241,607,782 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Bridgwater College was top, St Mary's University College, Twickenham had the fastest response time with University College Birmingham reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st The University of Manchester
2nd University College Birmingham
3rd Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
4th East Riding College
5th London Business School

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2015 Q1/UK Uni & HE is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1094.

Sitemorse INDEX

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