November 2006/Mobile Phones



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    20 Nov 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    12,981

  • Total tests run:

    4,219,137

  • Total number of PDF's:

    12

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.06%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.79%

  • Pages missing a title:

    4.93%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    56.85%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    98.82%

  • Poorest code quality:

    The Carphone Warehouse (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/) - 48,098 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    O2 (http://www.o2.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
Ofcom95.350.78
Virgin Mobile94.570.00
PhoneShop94.400.80
O293.653.97
Tesco Mobile91.3411.02
Orange UK88.800.00
Dial-a-Phone53.540.00
345.600.00
The Carphone Warehou​se19.840.00
T-Mobile6.400.00
Phones 2U Direct3.101.55
The Link2.330.78
Vodafone1.550.00
Direct Mobile Phones​0.790.00
Phones4U0.000.00
The Phone Spot0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Phones4U
  • The Phone Spot
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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PDF testing

8.33% 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/badquery
None
62.23%
file/url/offtop
None
17.26%
file/url/badpath
None
17.20%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.85%
file/html/notitle
None
0.78%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.53%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.32%
file/html/longmeta
None
0.20%
file/url/badauthority
None
0.16%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.13%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
41.03%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
34.76%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
5.47%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
5.31%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.63%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.28%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.47%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.02%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.53%
file/html/titles
More than one <title> tag specified
0.16%