January 2007/Trains
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Express | 100.00 | 7.09 |
| Heathrow Express | 100.00 | 3.57 |
| Central Trains | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chiltern Railways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Institution of Railway Operators | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| National Rail | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Network Rail - (formerly Railtrack) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ORR - Office of the Rail Regulator | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RPCs - Rail Passengers Council and Committees | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Railway Technology | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Silverlink Train Services | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| c2c | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arriva Trains Wales | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Go-Ahead | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Midland Mainline | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Eurostar | 98.44 | 2.34 |
| ATOC - Association of Train Operating Companies | 98.00 | 14.00 |
| Nottingham Express Transit | 96.83 | 1.59 |
| Transport 2000 | 96.06 | 11.02 |
| Railfuture | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Steam excursions and tours | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Docklands Light Railway | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| First Great Western | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| National Railway Museum | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| West Coast Railway Company | 94.12 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rail | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| one | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Stansted Express | 91.67 | 0.00 |
| ScotRail | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| First Capital Connect | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Thameslink Rail | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| South Eastern Trains | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| PLUSBUS | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Trains | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Oyster Card | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| London Underground | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Sheffield Supertram | 80.00 | 6.00 |
| Railway Study Association | 78.26 | 0.00 |
| First Group | 66.93 | 3.15 |
| Railway Heritage Association | 65.35 | 0.00 |
| Great North Eastern Railway | 57.81 | 0.00 |
| South West Trains | 53.49 | 0.00 |
| Glasgow Underground | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Railway Children - Charity | 51.90 | 0.00 |
| Porterbrook | 51.67 | 0.00 |
| Tyne & Wear Metro | 43.75 | 0.00 |
| The Train Chartering Company Ltd | 40.66 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| Railway Mission | 29.17 | 0.00 |
| Island Line | 28.21 | 0.00 |
| Manchester Metrolink | 22.78 | 0.00 |
| Trakkies - for children of all ages | 20.99 | 0.00 |
| Rail Safety and Standards Board | 10.08 | 3.88 |
| Bombardier | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Railwatch | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| ERTMS | 2.78 | 0.00 |
| APT-P | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| A C Locomotivegroup | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Midland Metro | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Railway Forum | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| SettleâCarlisle Partnership | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Alstom | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Rail Freight Group | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hull Trains | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Keeping Track | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LocoScene | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyrail | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- First Capital Connect
- Thameslink Rail
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
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- BritRail - for overseas visitors
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.
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% |
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% |