2015 Q3/Global Airlines - US connection



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    16 Oct 2015

  • Total URLs tested:

    230,537

  • Total tests run:

    74,958,585

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,310

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.13%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    95.05%

  • Pages missing a title:

    5.45%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    51.94%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    98.73%

  • Poorest code quality:

    TAP Portugal (http://www.flytap.com/) - 170,071 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Aer Lingus (http://www.aerlingus.com/)




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)
Aer Lingus 0.04 348.20
Emirates 0.05 166.34
Saudia 0.05 209.58
El Al Israel Airline​s 0.05 734.16
Royal Air Maroc 0.05 778.69
Thomson Airways 0.06 293.30
British Airways 0.06 351.31
LOT 0.07 569.28
TAP Portugal 0.07 79.71
Air Canada 0.07 735.18
Air France 0.08 1423.50
Arik Air 0.10 371.89
KLM 0.10 592.58
Icelandair 0.11 519.78
Jet Airways 0.11 470.34
Iberia 0.11 435.51
Virgin Atlantic 0.12 819.68
Ukraine Internationa​l 0.12 1215.93
Lufthansa 0.12 179.30
Air Berlin 0.12 493.82
Ethiopian Airlines 0.13 2467.61
Brussels Airlines 0.13 216.57
Austrian Airlines 0.14 144.04
Delta Airlines 0.14 527.57
Etihad Airways 0.16 523.19
Egypt Air 0.16 344.53
Finnair 0.16 338.25
American Airlines 0.17 208.58
Qantas 0.17 408.18
China Southern 0.17 491.39
US Airways 0.17 1054.92
Southwest Airlines 0.17 254.63
Jet2 0.18 497.73
Turkish Airlines 0.19 201.17
SAS 0.20 456.40
Norwegian Airline 0.21 630.02
Aeroflot 0.23 209.51
PIA 0.23 1166.46
Alitalia 0.24 1106.62
Caribbean Airlines 0.26 317.34
Air Transat 0.27 358.53
Philippine Airlines 0.27 305.47
SATA 0.31 1264.35
Cathay Pacific 0.33 480.50
TAM Linhas Aereas 0.35 303.40
Swiss 0.35 1660.35
United Airlines 0.36 396.78
Air New Zealand 0.36 164.88
Avianca 0.38 236.97
EVA Air 0.38 244.97
South African Airway​s 0.42 278.85
Air India 0.44 311.22
Aeromexico 0.45 270.77
ANA 0.63 129.35
Uzbekistan Airways 0.64 702.94
Japan Airlines 0.65 103.28
Azerbaijan Airlines 0.76 303.21
Aerolineas Argentina​s 0.92 63.99
Organisation A AA
Air India100.000.00
Qantas100.000.00
Virgin Atlantic100.000.00
Royal Air Maroc99.200.00
Japan Airlines96.800.80
Jet Airways96.800.80
Cathay Pacific96.800.00
Icelandair96.000.80
Air New Zealand95.200.00
Iberia95.200.00
LOT94.402.40
Swiss94.400.00
British Airways92.800.80
Aeromexico92.800.00
Avianca90.400.00
ANA88.000.00
Norwegian Airline84.000.00
United Airlines80.800.00
El Al Israel Airline​s79.200.80
Emirates79.200.00
Southwest Airlines74.400.00
Saudia73.600.00
Brussels Airlines69.600.00
SATA67.200.00
Finnair60.800.00
Air France56.800.00
Ethiopian Airlines56.000.80
Aer Lingus51.200.00
American Airlines49.600.00
Austrian Airlines48.800.00
PIA45.600.00
South African Airway​s31.200.00
Arik Air25.600.00
Alitalia24.000.00
Ukraine Internationa​l21.600.80
China Southern20.0051.20
Air Transat18.401.60
TAM Linhas Aereas17.600.80
KLM16.801.60
Azerbaijan Airlines14.404.00
Caribbean Airlines12.800.80
Air Canada12.000.00
US Airways12.000.00
Jet210.400.80
Air Berlin8.800.00
Delta Airlines8.000.80
Egypt Air5.600.00
Aeroflot4.000.80
TAP Portugal4.000.80
SAS3.200.00
Turkish Airlines2.400.80
Aerolineas Argentina​s2.400.00
Etihad Airways1.600.80
Philippine Airlines1.600.80
Lufthansa1.600.00
EVA Air0.800.00
Thomson Airways0.800.00
Uzbekistan Airways0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Uzbekistan Airways
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Transaero
  • Air China
  • Asiana Airlines
  • China Eastern
  • Korean Air
  • Kuwait Airways
  • Royal Jordanian
  • Singapore Airlines
  • Thomas Cook Airlines
  • Air Europa
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PDF testing

35.6% 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.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
54.24%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
16.53%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
10.81%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.76%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
3.43%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
3.05%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
2.49%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
2.34%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.42%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.16%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
31.44%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
17.96%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
17.75%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.25%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.86%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.18%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.60%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.60%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
1.13%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.05%