November 2006/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Nov 2006
- Total URLs tested:
48,844
- Total tests run:
15,914,886
- Total number of PDF's:
1,561
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.77%
- Pages failing code standards:
73.45%
- Pages missing a title:
1.25%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
25.93%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
94.70%
- Poorest code quality:
Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 61,888 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Barclays (http://www.barclays.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 96.09 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 74.60 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 48.06 |
| Sainsbury(J) | 100.00 | 20.47 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 6.20 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 98.44 | 5.47 |
| Brambles Industries | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 98.41 | 52.38 |
| British Energy Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 98.40 | 28.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 98.40 | 3.20 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 97.64 | 30.71 |
| BP | 97.64 | 28.35 |
| Prudential | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Sabmiller | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 96.85 | 7.87 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.03 | 0.79 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.28 | 1.57 |
| HBOS | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Hanson | 94.44 | 0.79 |
| International Power | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.13 | 3.15 |
| Diageo | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Resolution | 88.89 | 4.76 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.61 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 74.60 | 6.35 |
| Liberty International | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 62.70 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 62.20 | 26.77 |
| Compass Group | 60.80 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 54.76 | 33.33 |
| Amvescap | 54.05 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 35.71 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Next | 22.22 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 17.32 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 10.24 | 10.24 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.62 | 1.72 |
| Smiths Group | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 2.36 | 2.36 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 1.55 | 12.40 |
| Wpp Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Corus Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Sainsbury(J)
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Corus Group
- ICAP
- Kazakhmys
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Reuters Group
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
- Persimmon
PDF testing
24.5% 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.
| file/url/offtop None |
35.25% |
| file/url/badquery None |
27.80% |
| file/url/badpath None |
20.18% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
3.91% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.04% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.58% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.50% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.43% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.41% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.29% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
27.07% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.78% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
16.77% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.26% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.50% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.26% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.92% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.45% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.50% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.98% |