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FTSE 100 December 2006

Error free sites

  • British American Tobacco
  • J Sainsbury

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Corus Group
  • ICAP
  • Kazakhmys
  • Reckitt Benckiser
  • Smiths Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
  • Persimmon

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 25.75
Poorest code quality: Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 62,229 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Scottish Power (http://www.scottishpower.com/)

PDF testing

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.

27.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 32.97%
file/url/badpath 24.53%
file/url/badquery 23.92%
url/fetch/notfound 4.23%
file/html/longmeta 2.20%
file/html/notitle 1.71%
url/fetch/badcookie 1.63%
file/html/badmeta 1.63%
url/mail/exception 1.57%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.26%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 28.58%
file/html/unknownentity 27.20%
file/html/badattr 15.30%
file/html/tagnotallowed 11.90%
file/html/unknowntag 4.85%
file/html/badvalue 4.75%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 2.84%
file/html/closingunopened 2.05%
file/html/missingclose 1.24%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.86%