March 2007/Food and Beverage



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    09 Mar 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    18,565

  • Total tests run:

    6,047,015

  • Total number of PDF's:

    515

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.14%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    79.10%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.87%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    39.76%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    95.18%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Kraft Foods UK (http://www.kraftfoods.co.uk/) - 22,634 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    British Bakeries (http://www.britishbakeries.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)
Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards
Organisation A AA
Northern Foods100.0070.54
Marstons100.0056.35
Bernard Matthews100.000.78
Bakkavor100.000.00
Britvic100.000.00
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Kraft Foods UK100.000.00
Weetabix100.000.00
Scottish &​ Newcastle99.220.00
Unilever99.220.00
SAB Miller97.660.00
Pataks97.3763.16
Moy Park Food Servic​e96.000.00
Princes94.440.00
Coca-Cola Enterprise​s92.8011.20
Heinz Europe92.060.00
Diageo90.400.00
Coors Brewers88.9811.81
InBev88.000.00
Lyons Seafood87.800.00
Warburtons87.200.00
ABF82.680.00
Cargill76.980.00
PepsiCo75.200.00
Gate Gourmet London74.600.00
Birds Eye57.940.00
British Bakeries53.332.22
Compass Group50.000.00
Tate &​ Lyle25.400.00
Arla Foods UK7.140.00
Kerry Foods5.470.00
Avenance4.170.00
Del Monte Foods Inte​rnational2.630.00
3663 Foodservice2.380.00
Tulip Food Service1.590.79
Mars1.570.00
Young's Bluecrest1.220.00
Brake Brothers FoodS​ervice0.800.00
Premier Foods0.790.00
Greencore0.780.00
British Sugar0.000.00
Burton's Foods0.000.00
G's Marketing0.000.00
Grampian Country Foo​ds Group0.000.00
Greeneking PLC0.000.00
Sara Lee UK0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Cadbury Schweppes
  • Gate Gourmet London
  • Greencore
  • Heinz Europe
  • Marstons
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • British Sugar
  • Burton's Foods
  • Grampian Country Foods Group
  • Greeneking PLC
  • G's Marketing
  • Sara Lee UK
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Aramark
  • Carlsberg
  • Friskies Petcare
  • Mc Cain Foods
  • United Biscuits
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PDF testing

15.5% 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/badpath
None
34.16%
file/url/offtop
None
25.16%
file/html/notitle
None
12.05%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
9.63%
file/url/badquery
None
6.58%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
3.35%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.61%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.49%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.43%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.37%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
21.93%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
21.83%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
14.05%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
13.31%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
9.33%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
6.00%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.35%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
4.04%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.07%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.69%