March 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Mar 2007
- Total URLs tested:
46,607
- Total tests run:
15,191,033
- Total number of PDF's:
1,683
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.72%
- Pages failing code standards:
72.25%
- Pages missing a title:
0.99%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
21.19%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.58%
- Poorest code quality:
Shire (http://www.shire.com/) - 39,608 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Bg Group (http://www.bg-group.com/)
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 | 96.03 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 91.41 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 76.38 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 67.19 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 30.95 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 17.60 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| 3I Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 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 |
| Hanson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 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 |
| Centrica | 99.22 | 2.33 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.21 | 54.33 |
| Unilever | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Sabmiller | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Smiths Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 98.40 | 9.60 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 97.67 | 9.30 |
| Anglo American | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 96.88 | 2.34 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Corus Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 95.20 | 31.20 |
| Next | 95.20 | 1.60 |
| Rio Tinto | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| BP | 91.20 | 4.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 90.62 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 89.92 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 89.76 | 22.83 |
| Associated British Foods | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 80.80 | 22.40 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 72.00 | 43.20 |
| Standard Chartered | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Liberty International | 66.41 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 59.84 | 0.00 |
| Amvescap | 56.76 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 48.00 | 4.80 |
| Compass Group | 45.24 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 31.01 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 29.37 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.62 | 1.72 |
| Cable & Wireless | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- BAE Systems
- British American Tobacco
- Cadbury Schweppes
- International Power
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
- Persimmon
- Reckitt Benckiser
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
- Vodafone Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
25.2% 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 |
35.46% |
| file/url/offtop None |
23.33% |
| file/url/badquery None |
13.82% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.17% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.79% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.13% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.49% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.15% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.62% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.16% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
30.91% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.11% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
11.73% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.47% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.66% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.34% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.89% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
3.13% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.48% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.71% |