2015 Q4/Global Airlines - US connection



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    13 Dec 2015

  • Total URLs tested:

    233,539

  • Total tests run:

    75,935,873

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,373

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.24%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    93.77%

  • Pages missing a title:

    5.69%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    43.55%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    98.09%

  • Poorest code quality:

    TAP Portugal (http://www.flytap.com/) - 142,417 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Thomson Airways (http://www.thomson.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)
Thomson Airways 0.04 619.47
Saudia 0.04 211.77
British Airways 0.07 207.62
LOT 0.07 521.25
Aer Lingus 0.07 155.13
Arik Air 0.07 304.30
Emirates 0.08 833.03
Royal Air Maroc 0.08 872.40
Iberia 0.08 427.48
El Al Israel Airline​s 0.08 653.72
US Airways 0.09 383.65
Icelandair 0.09 546.39
Air France 0.09 1267.46
Delta Airlines 0.10 869.25
Finnair 0.11 337.69
Ukraine Internationa​l 0.12 746.11
Lufthansa 0.12 178.77
Air Canada 0.12 519.48
Virgin Atlantic 0.13 832.07
Air Berlin 0.13 564.10
KLM 0.14 736.75
American Airlines 0.14 338.89
SAS 0.14 409.43
Ethiopian Airlines 0.15 2163.13
Alitalia 0.16 2093.03
Etihad Airways 0.16 511.54
Qantas 0.16 366.12
Brussels Airlines 0.16 203.18
Southwest Airlines 0.18 258.80
Jet Airways 0.19 122.43
Austrian Airlines 0.20 168.24
WOW Air 0.20 637.43
Turkish Airlines 0.20 176.65
Air Transat 0.22 240.33
Philippine Airlines 0.23 137.28
Caribbean Airlines 0.23 317.69
PIA 0.24 1258.51
Egypt Air 0.30 307.04
Air New Zealand 0.32 75.40
United Airlines 0.34 354.44
TAP Portugal 0.36 110.49
China Southern 0.37 208.62
South African Airway​s 0.40 278.75
Aeroflot 0.42 140.34
Cathay Pacific 0.45 257.15
Avianca 0.45 256.97
Jet2 0.46 496.92
TAM Linhas Aereas 0.49 165.51
Air India 0.52 286.88
ANA 0.53 118.01
Aeromexico 0.56 227.06
SATA 0.60 1233.68
Swiss 0.68 1104.28
Aerolineas Argentina​s 0.72 71.24
Japan Airlines 0.73 91.08
Azerbaijan Airlines 0.77 207.22
Uzbekistan Airways 1.14 587.66
Organisation A AA
Aer Lingus100.000.00
Air India100.000.00
Philippine Airlines100.000.00
Virgin Atlantic100.000.00
British Airways99.200.80
Icelandair99.200.80
WOW Air99.200.80
Cathay Pacific99.200.00
Qantas99.200.00
Royal Air Maroc99.200.00
Avianca98.400.00
Delta Airlines96.800.80
Japan Airlines96.800.80
Aeroflot96.001.60
Air New Zealand95.200.00
Iberia95.200.00
Swiss94.400.00
South African Airway​s93.600.00
TAP Portugal92.001.60
ANA89.600.00
Air Berlin88.800.00
United Airlines86.400.00
Air France76.800.00
Saudia74.400.00
Southwest Airlines72.000.00
Air Canada71.200.00
KLM68.801.60
Finnair68.800.00
Brussels Airlines68.000.00
SATA68.000.00
Austrian Airlines67.200.00
El Al Israel Airline​s64.800.80
Etihad Airways54.400.80
PIA50.400.00
American Airlines45.600.00
US Airways45.600.00
LOT42.403.20
Alitalia26.400.00
Aeromexico25.600.00
Air Transat22.401.60
TAM Linhas Aereas20.181.75
Arik Air19.200.00
Caribbean Airlines14.400.80
Azerbaijan Airlines11.201.60
SAS5.601.60
Jet Airways3.200.80
Ukraine Internationa​l3.200.80
Aerolineas Argentina​s3.200.00
China Southern2.4083.20
Ethiopian Airlines2.400.80
Turkish Airlines2.400.80
Lufthansa2.400.00
Egypt Air1.600.00
Jet20.800.80
Emirates0.800.00
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
  • EVA Air
  • Asiana Airlines
  • China Eastern
  • Korean Air
  • Kuwait Airways
  • Norwegian Airline
  • Royal Jordanian
  • Singapore Airlines
  • Thomas Cook Airlines
  • Air Europa
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PDF testing

35.5% 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.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
48.27%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
21.87%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
14.05%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
4.86%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
2.99%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.72%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.69%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
0.87%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.60%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.45%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
29.98%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
16.22%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
14.00%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
13.73%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.76%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
4.78%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.70%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
1.29%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.18%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.87%