2019 Q3/Global Airlines - US connection



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    09 Jul 2019

  • Total URLs tested:

    211,084

  • Total tests run:

    68,609,268

  • Total number of PDF's:

    268

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.87%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    98.53%

  • Pages missing a title:

    8.47%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    99.31%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    42.51%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Saudia (http://www.saudiairlines.com/) - 88,885 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Icelandair (http://www.icelandair.com/)




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 2.1 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
Icelandair 0.04 1291.29
Aer Lingus 0.06 1097.38
Thomas Cook Airlines​ 0.06 232.32
El Al Israel Airline​s 0.06 1021.16
Emirates 0.08 201.81
Iberia 0.09 180.64
SAS 0.10 300.89
Azerbaijan Airlines 0.11 363.94
Norwegian Airline 0.11 180.94
LATAM Airlines 0.11 436.02
PIA 0.12 454.92
Thomson Airways 0.12 441.41
TAP Portugal 0.13 162.23
Philippine Airlines 0.13 392.50
TAM Linhas Aereas 0.14 395.94
Air Canada 0.14 854.03
Swiss 0.15 885.57
Turkish Airlines 0.16 161.56
Meridiana 0.17 282.90
Air Europa 0.18 384.94
Royal Jordanian 0.18 853.56
Air Serbia 0.18 1102.68
Saudia 0.21 81.42
Czech Airlines 0.24 1232.43
British Airways 0.24 889.23
Air Tahiti Nui 0.25 456.98
Cathay Pacific 0.26 472.43
WestJet 0.36 437.62
SATA 0.38 315.36
Air New Zealand 0.39 508.51
Ukraine Internationa​l 0.39 455.23
Royal Air Maroc 0.41 234.17
Avianca 0.42 349.56
Alitalia 0.43 96.43
Japan Airlines 0.47 202.25
Air India 0.47 211.25
Uzbekistan Airways 0.51 414.65
Eurowings 0.56 184.01
Aerolineas Argentina​s 0.62 422.62
Vueling Airlines 0.94 223.06
China Southern 0.95 282.03
South African Airway​s 0.97 192.83
Organisation A AA
British Airways8.8993.33
Avianca4.441.48
Air India2.2294.81
Czech Airlines2.2291.85
El Al Israel Airline​s2.2291.11
Ukraine Internationa​l1.506.77
Cathay Pacific1.4846.67
Japan Airlines1.4814.81
Air New Zealand0.808.80
SAS0.7898.45
Royal Air Maroc0.7838.76
Thomas Cook Airlines​0.7797.69
South African Airway​s0.7494.07
PIA0.746.67
Aer Lingus0.00100.00
Icelandair0.00100.00
Swiss0.0099.20
Air Europa0.0097.60
Air Serbia0.0096.30
SATA0.0095.56
Air Tahiti Nui0.0094.81
China Southern0.0094.81
WestJet0.0094.03
Air Canada0.0093.60
Royal Jordanian0.0088.89
Vueling Airlines0.0085.60
Turkish Airlines0.0073.60
LATAM Airlines0.0067.41
TAM Linhas Aereas0.0065.19
Saudia0.0057.78
Emirates0.0048.00
Aerolineas Argentina​s0.0047.29
Meridiana0.0037.78
Uzbekistan Airways0.0030.37
Iberia0.0019.26
Azerbaijan Airlines0.0011.11
Philippine Airlines0.0010.37
Eurowings0.008.15
Alitalia0.007.20
Thomson Airways0.003.15
Norwegian Airline0.002.36
TAP Portugal0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • TAP Portugal
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • China Eastern
  • WOW Air
  • American Airlines
  • Aeroflot
  • Air Berlin
  • Air China
  • Arik Air
  • Caribbean Airlines
  • EVA Air
  • Asiana Airlines
  • Jet Airways
  • Kuwait Airways
  • LOT
  • Lufthansa
  • Singapore Airlines
  • Aeromexico
  • airBaltic
  • Air France
  • Air Transat
  • ANA
  • Austrian Airlines
  • Brussels Airlines
  • Delta Airlines
  • Egypt Air
  • Ethiopian Airlines
  • Etihad Airways
  • Finnair
  • Hainan Airlines
  • Jet2
  • KLM
  • Korean Air
  • Qantas
  • Qatar Airways
  • Southwest Airlines
  • United Airlines
  • Virgin Atlantic
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PDF testing

43.3% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
49.75%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
15.30%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
10.49%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
8.38%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
5.42%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
5.02%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.13%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
1.13%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.73%
file/image/invalid
Image file is corrupt
0.47%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
32.42%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
16.95%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
16.30%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.02%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
7.29%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.03%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
2.22%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.89%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.57%
file/html/unknownid
Fragment identifier not found
1.34%