January 2007/Trains



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    02 Jan 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    34,802

  • Total tests run:

    11,340,732

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,157

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.37%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    71.00%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.99%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    32.51%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.34%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Steam excursions and tours (http://www.uksteam.info/tours/index.htm) - 46,540 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Porterbrook (http://www.porterbrook.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)
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Organisation A AA
Gatwick Express100.007.09
Heathrow Express100.003.57
Central Trains100.000.00
Chiltern Railways100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
Institution of Railw​ay Operators100.000.00
National Rail100.000.00
Network Rail - (form​erly Railtrack)100.000.00
ORR - Office of the ​Rail Regulator100.000.00
RPCs - Rail Passenge​rs Council and Commi​ttees100.000.00
Railway Technology100.000.00
Silverlink Train Ser​vices100.000.00
Southern100.000.00
Stagecoach100.000.00
c2c100.000.00
Arriva Trains Wales99.220.78
Go-Ahead99.210.00
National Express99.210.00
Midland Mainline98.450.00
Eurostar98.442.34
ATOC - Association o​f Train Operating Co​mpanies98.0014.00
Nottingham Express T​ransit96.831.59
Transport 200096.0611.02
Railfuture96.060.00
Steam excursions and​ tours95.280.00
Docklands Light Rail​way95.240.00
First Great Western95.200.00
National Railway Mus​eum95.200.00
West Coast Railway C​ompany94.120.00
Northern Rail92.860.00
one92.000.00
Stansted Express91.670.00
ScotRail91.200.00
First Capital Connec​t90.700.00
Thameslink Rail90.550.00
South Eastern Trains​87.200.00
PLUSBUS85.830.00
Virgin Trains83.460.00
Oyster Card83.330.00
Transport for London​81.750.00
London Underground80.310.00
Sheffield Supertram80.006.00
Railway Study Associ​ation78.260.00
First Group66.933.15
Railway Heritage Ass​ociation65.350.00
Great North Eastern ​Railway57.810.00
South West Trains53.490.00
Glasgow Underground52.630.00
Railway Children - C​harity51.900.00
Porterbrook51.670.00
Tyne &​ Wear Metro43.750.00
The Train Chartering​ Company Ltd40.660.00
British Transport Po​lice33.070.00
Railway Mission29.170.00
Island Line28.210.00
Manchester Metrolink​22.780.00
Trakkies - for child​ren of all ages20.990.00
Rail Safety and Stan​dards Board10.083.88
Bombardier9.600.00
Railwatch3.970.00
ERTMS2.780.00
APT-P2.380.00
A C Locomotivegroup1.590.00
Midland Metro0.800.00
Railway Forum0.790.00
Settle–Carlisle Pa​rtnership0.790.00
Alstom0.780.00
Rail Freight Group0.780.00
Assoc. of Community ​Rail Partnerships0.000.00
Hull Trains0.000.00
Keeping Track0.000.00
LocoScene0.000.00
Merseyrail0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • First Capital Connect
  • Thameslink Rail
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships
  • Hull Trains
  • Keeping Track
  • LocoScene
  • Merseyrail
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • BritRail - for overseas visitors
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PDF testing

12.5% 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.

file/url/badquery
None
60.04%
file/url/offtop
None
16.12%
file/url/badpath
None
7.15%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.73%
file/html/longmeta
None
2.61%
file/html/notitle
None
2.35%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.06%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
0.58%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.58%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
0.57%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
25.33%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
18.58%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
16.21%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
10.26%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
9.25%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.14%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.83%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.21%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.33%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.29%