February 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Feb 2007
- Total URLs tested:
46,149
- Total tests run:
15,037,399
- Total number of PDF's:
1,499
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.54%
- Pages failing code standards:
73.43%
- Pages missing a title:
1.22%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
22.88%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.82%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 33,950 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Next (http://www.next.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.62 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 62.70 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 15.75 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 5.43 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.21 | 61.11 |
| Wolseley | 99.21 | 24.60 |
| Unilever | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 98.40 | 36.80 |
| Rio Tinto | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Sabmiller | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Anglo American | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 96.83 | 7.14 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Hanson | 96.80 | 1.60 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 96.12 | 14.73 |
| Slough Estates | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.03 | 2.38 |
| Shire | 95.31 | 0.78 |
| Corus Group | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 93.80 | 0.78 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.13 | 2.36 |
| Scottish Power | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| BP | 91.41 | 10.16 |
| Diageo | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Next | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.61 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 82.17 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 73.64 | 5.43 |
| Liberty International | 67.97 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 64.57 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 61.11 | 37.30 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 59.06 | 0.00 |
| Amvescap | 54.67 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 46.83 | 11.90 |
| Smiths Group | 46.03 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 30.47 | 15.62 |
| Cairn Energy | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.62 | 1.72 |
| Vodafone Group | 5.60 | 5.60 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Centrica
- Sage Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- ICAP
- Kazakhmys
- Persimmon
- Reckitt Benckiser
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
24.0% 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/badpath None |
34.04% |
| file/url/offtop None |
22.24% |
| file/url/badquery None |
18.15% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.01% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.93% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.59% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.58% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.38% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.77% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.69% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
31.45% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
9.39% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.68% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.08% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.34% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.55% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.49% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.40% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.68% |