2006 Q4/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Dec 2006
- Total URLs tested:
93,616
- Total tests run:
30,549,246
- Total number of PDF's:
4,771
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.53%
- Pages failing code standards:
79.32%
- Pages missing a title:
3.64%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
46.49%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.17%
- Poorest code quality:
Autonomy (http://www.autonomy.com/) - 79,719 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrusts.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 100.00 | 81.60 |
| Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| Berkeley Group | 100.00 | 32.03 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 26.77 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 19.84 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 17.50 |
| Electra Investment Trust | 100.00 | 6.06 |
| Homeserve PLC | 100.00 | 3.97 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| Wellington Underwriting | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Ultra Electronic Holdings | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMI Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group HDGS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| London Merchant Secs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Businees Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Mortgage & Trust | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Venture Production | 99.20 | 29.60 |
| Cookson Group | 99.20 | 2.40 |
| Euromoney Institutional Inv. | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 99.12 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group | 99.00 | 0.00 |
| Caledonia Investments | 98.81 | 0.00 |
| Amlin | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers PLC | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Monks Inv Tst PLC / Scottish Mtg Inv Tr | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 97.67 | 3.88 |
| Abbot Group | 97.64 | 1.57 |
| AMEC | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Luminar | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Inc & Growth IT | 97.56 | 0.00 |
| RHM | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| William Hill | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 96.83 | 6.35 |
| Informa PLC | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 96.67 | 3.33 |
| Group 4 Securicor | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming PLC | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 96.00 | 36.80 |
| Kier Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 95.38 | 7.98 |
| Wimpey George | 95.28 | 38.58 |
| Petrofac Ltd | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat PLC | 94.87 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross | 94.67 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh US Tracker | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Burren Energy | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| First Choice Holidays | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Derwent Valley | 92.38 | 0.00 |
| British Assets Trust | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 91.23 | 0.00 |
| F&C | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Laing | 90.48 | 2.38 |
| Unite Group | 89.19 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Tr | 89.09 | 0.00 |
| Murray Intern Tr | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Computacenter | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd | 84.00 | 14.40 |
| Misys | 82.17 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Tr | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 79.71 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls PLC | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Galiform | 78.57 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Parkman | 77.95 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 75.40 | 0.00 |
| Schroders PLC | 75.19 | 10.08 |
| Whitbread PLC | 75.19 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 73.53 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 73.02 | 0.00 |
| Paragon Group | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Charter PLC | 67.72 | 0.00 |
| Sthree | 65.75 | 65.75 |
| WH Smith | 62.02 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 61.90 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Woodrow | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 55.12 | 3.15 |
| Speedy Hire | 55.12 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet PLC | 51.56 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 46.40 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 45.78 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 42.52 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 39.53 | 38.76 |
| Wood Group John | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 38.89 | 0.00 |
| Minerva | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Expro International Group | 37.30 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 33.86 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Collins Stewart Tullett PLC | 32.48 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 28.57 | 0.79 |
| Helphire Group | 24.64 | 0.00 |
| Brixton Estate | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 21.88 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 19.74 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 19.53 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 15.75 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 15.50 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Co Tr | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 15.08 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 14.73 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 14.71 | 0.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 12.70 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| McAlpine ALF. | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Soco Intl Plc | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 7.81 | 0.00 |
| IMI Group | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Logica CMG | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust PLC | 7.03 | 0.00 |
| Mytravel Group | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data | 5.43 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 5.26 | 0.00 |
| Photo-Me International | 5.04 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.55 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.80 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Gyrus Group | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 2.38 | 0.79 |
| Autonomy | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.61 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 1.59 | 0.79 |
| Intertek Group | 1.59 | 0.79 |
| Grainger Trust | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Topps Tiles PLC | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 1.28 | 0.00 |
| Wilson Bowden | 1.16 | 0.00 |
| Brown N. Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 0.83 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 0.79 | 0.79 |
| Atkins Global | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Templeton Emerging Market IT | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Aggreko | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Avis Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CLS Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Countrywide PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gondola Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Insight Fnd Tst | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Keller Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kensington Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northgate Information Solution | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendragon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates & Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources Ld | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smiths DS | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| TR Property Investment Tst | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whatman | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolfson Microelectronics PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberforth Smaller Co Tr
- Barratt Developments
- Carpetright
- Dana Petroleum
- Electra Investment Trust
- Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries
- Melrose PLC
- Randgold Resources Ld
- Scottish Investment Tr
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- AGA Foodservice Group
- Aggreko
- Ashtead Group
- Avis Europe
- Barratt Developments
- BSS Group
- Capital & Regional
- Carpetright
- Cattles
- Close Brothers Group
- CLS Holdings
- Countrywide PLC
- Croda International
- Smiths DS
- Gondola Holdings
- Greene King PLC
- Hays
- TR Property Investment Tst
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Insight Fnd Tst
- Keller Group
- Meggitt
- Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
- MITIE Group PLC
- Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust
- Morgan Crucible Co PLC
- Northgate Information Solution
- Pendragon
- Provident Financial
- Qinetiq
- Quintain Estates & Development
- Randgold Resources Ld
- Regus Group
- Savills
- Spirent
- Taylor Nelson Sofres
- VT Group
- Weir Group
- Whatman
- Wolfson Microelectronics PLC
- Woolworths
- Kensington Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Aegis Group
- Burberry Group
- Carillion
- Restaurant Group
- Crest Nicholson
- Debenhams
- De La Rue
- Fidelity European Values
- Headlam Group
- JPMorgan Growth
- JP Morgan Fleming Japanese IT
- JP Morgan Fleming Mercantile
PDF testing
16.3% 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/badquery None |
85.06% |
| file/url/offtop None |
6.87% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.48% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.16% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.02% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.59% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.44% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.41% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.34% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
0.32% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.81% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.40% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
10.62% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
10.12% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.41% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.39% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
5.15% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.59% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.44% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.44% |