November 2006/FTSE 100



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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 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)
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Organisation A AA
Sage Group100.0096.09
Land Securities Grou​p100.0074.60
Alliance Boots100.0048.06
Sainsbury(J)100.0020.47
British American Tob​acco100.006.20
BT Group100.000.79
Aviva100.000.00
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Capita Group100.000.00
Centrica100.000.00
Drax Group100.000.00
Experian Group100.000.00
Friends Provident100.000.00
Hammerson100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.000.00
Kingfisher100.000.00
Lloyds TSB Group100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Rexam100.000.00
Rio Tinto100.000.00
United Utilities100.000.00
Yell Group100.000.00
National Grid99.220.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy99.220.00
ITV99.210.00
Unilever99.210.00
Bhp Billiton99.200.00
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up98.445.47
Brambles Industries98.440.00
Legal &​ General Group98.4152.38
British Energy Group​98.410.00
British Land Co98.4028.00
HSBC Holdings plc98.403.20
Bradford &​ Bingley98.400.00
Royal Dutch Shell97.670.00
Wolseley97.6430.71
BP97.6428.35
Prudential97.640.00
Anglo American97.620.00
Severn Trent97.620.00
Smith &​ Nephew97.600.00
Sabmiller96.900.00
Tesco96.857.87
Bg Group96.800.00
Alliance &​ Leicester96.060.00
Gallaher Group96.030.79
Glaxosmithkline96.030.00
Kelda Group96.030.00
British Airways96.000.00
Scottish &​ Newcastle95.310.00
Scottish Power95.310.00
Shire95.281.57
HBOS94.570.00
Hanson94.440.79
International Power94.400.00
DSG International93.650.00
Standard Life92.133.15
Diageo91.200.00
3I Group90.550.00
Royal &​ Sun Alliance Ins Gr​oup90.550.00
Reed Elsevier89.760.00
Resolution88.894.76
Marks &​ Spencer Group88.280.00
Pearson86.610.00
Associated British F​oods81.890.00
Morrison (Wm) Superm​arkets81.890.00
Xstrata74.606.35
Liberty Internationa​l64.000.00
Standard Chartered62.700.00
Barclays62.2026.77
Compass Group60.800.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group58.400.00
Northern Rock54.7633.33
Amvescap54.050.00
BAE Systems35.710.00
Tate &​ Lyle28.570.00
Next22.220.00
Cairn Energy17.320.00
Vodafone Group10.2410.24
Vedanta Resources8.621.72
Smiths Group4.000.00
Lonmin2.362.36
Rolls-Royce Group2.360.00
Imperial Chemical In​dustries2.340.00
Slough Estates1.5512.40
Wpp Group0.800.00
Johnson Matthey0.790.00
Man Group0.790.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Corus Group0.000.00
ICAP0.000.00
Kazakhmys0.000.00
Reckitt Benckiser0.000.00
Reuters Group0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • British American Tobacco
  • Sainsbury(J)
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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
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
  • Persimmon
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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.

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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%
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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%