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FTSE 100 January 2007

Error free sites

  • British American Tobacco
  • Sage Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • ICAP
  • Kazakhmys
  • Reckitt Benckiser
  • British Sky Broadcasting Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
  • Persimmon

Index facts

Sites tested: 15 Jan 2007
Total URLs tested: 46,918
Total tests run: 15,282,878
Total number of PDF's: 1,328
URLs failing functional tests: 4.70
Pages failing code standards: 72.64
Pages missing a title: 1.27
Pages failing accessibility level A: 22.07
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 22.07
Poorest code quality: Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 63,157 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Next (http://www.next.co.uk/)

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.

21.3% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 29.68%
file/url/badpath 27.03%
file/url/offtop 22.54%
url/fetch/notfound 4.93%
file/html/longmeta 2.90%
url/mail/exception 2.17%
file/html/notitle 2.08%
file/html/badmeta 1.93%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.42%
url/fetch/timeout 1.30%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 25.70%
file/html/unknownentity 24.34%
file/html/badattr 17.49%
file/html/tagnotallowed 13.77%
file/html/badvalue 7.20%
file/html/unknowntag 3.90%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 2.50%
file/html/closingunopened 2.29%
file/html/missingclose 1.28%
file/html/repeatedattr 1.03%