December 2006/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
14 Dec 2006
- Total URLs tested:
49,159
- Total tests run:
16,016,559
- Total number of PDF's:
1,534
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.56%
- Pages failing code standards:
73.88%
- Pages missing a title:
1.24%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
25.75%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
94.86%
- Poorest code quality:
Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 62,229 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Scottish Power (http://www.scottishpower.com/)
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 | 96.06 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 79.69 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 51.16 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 34.40 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 14.17 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 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 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 99.21 | 2.38 |
| Rio Tinto | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.20 | 57.60 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 98.45 | 5.43 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Sabmiller | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 97.62 | 27.78 |
| Prudential | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.31 | 1.56 |
| BP | 94.57 | 18.60 |
| Tesco | 94.57 | 5.43 |
| Hanson | 94.49 | 0.79 |
| International Power | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.13 | 3.15 |
| Associated British Foods | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Resolution | 88.10 | 5.56 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 86.82 | 3.10 |
| Pearson | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 85.94 | 0.00 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 75.00 | 6.25 |
| Liberty International | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 61.42 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 56.35 | 34.92 |
| Barclays | 55.56 | 7.14 |
| Amvescap | 54.05 | 0.00 |
| Next | 39.84 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 32.54 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 26.98 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 23.02 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 16.00 | 15.20 |
| Vodafone Group | 8.66 | 8.66 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.62 | 1.72 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 2.36 | 2.36 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 1.57 | 1.57 |
| Man Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 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 |
| Smiths Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- J Sainsbury
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Corus Group
- ICAP
- Kazakhmys
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Smiths Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
- Persimmon
PDF testing
27.0% 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 |
32.97% |
| file/url/badpath None |
24.53% |
| file/url/badquery None |
23.92% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
4.23% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.20% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.71% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.63% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.63% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.57% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.26% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
28.58% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
27.20% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
15.30% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
11.90% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.85% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.75% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.84% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.05% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.24% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.86% |