2007 Q1/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
19 Mar 2007
- Total URLs tested:
91,249
- Total tests run:
29,784,547
- Total number of PDF's:
4,947
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.19%
- Pages failing code standards:
80.08%
- Pages missing a title:
3.84%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
45.58%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.04%
- Poorest code quality:
EMAP (http://www.emap.com/) - 95,350 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Greene King PLC (http://www.greeneking.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 98.40 |
| Northern Foods | 100.00 | 72.44 |
| Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries | 100.00 | 60.80 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 40.98 |
| Berkeley Group | 100.00 | 32.56 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 17.19 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 17.07 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| Electra Investment Trust | 100.00 | 6.45 |
| Homeserve PLC | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMI Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group HDGS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronic Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Businees Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wellington Underwriting | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers PLC | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Mortgage & Trust | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 99.21 | 24.60 |
| Amlin | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming PLC | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Venture Production | 99.20 | 30.40 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 99.07 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 98.45 | 12.40 |
| Colt Telecom Group | 98.44 | 0.78 |
| Britvic | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat PLC | 97.83 | 0.00 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Inc & Growth IT | 97.56 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 96.88 | 3.12 |
| Luminar | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| UK Coal | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| William Hill | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Euromoney Institutional Inv. | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co PLC | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Abbot Group | 96.74 | 2.17 |
| Group 4 Securicor | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Carillion | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Wimpey George | 96.00 | 40.80 |
| British Energy Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Monks Inv Tst PLC / Scottish Mtg Inv Tr | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 95.20 | 44.00 |
| First Choice Holidays | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac Ltd | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 94.50 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Schroders PLC | 92.97 | 3.91 |
| Burren Energy | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 92.80 | 16.80 |
| Informa PLC | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 89.41 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 88.28 | 1.56 |
| Scottish Investment Tr | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 85.98 | 0.00 |
| Laing | 85.71 | 1.59 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd | 85.04 | 29.92 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 84.50 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 83.53 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Parkman | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| Galiform | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 77.17 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| British Assets Trust | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| F&C | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross | 73.81 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 73.68 | 0.00 |
| McAlpine ALF. | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 73.53 | 0.00 |
| Paragon Group | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 72.66 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls PLC | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Charter PLC | 70.31 | 0.00 |
| Sthree | 66.67 | 66.67 |
| Babcock International Group | 66.14 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 65.87 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 61.90 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 61.11 | 3.97 |
| WH Smith | 57.81 | 0.00 |
| Speedy Hire | 55.12 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Minerva | 49.21 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group John | 46.03 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 45.78 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 44.09 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet PLC | 40.48 | 0.00 |
| Expro International Group | 37.30 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 36.80 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Grainger Trust | 29.46 | 0.00 |
| Helphire Group | 25.35 | 0.00 |
| Collins Stewart | 20.25 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 20.16 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 19.74 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 18.90 | 0.00 |
| Brixton Estate | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 17.19 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh US Tracker | 17.05 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 16.00 | 15.20 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Co Tr | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 14.29 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust PLC | 14.29 | 0.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 12.70 | 0.00 |
| Soco Intl Plc | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 9.30 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Woodrow | 7.75 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Mytravel Group | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 5.00 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 4.88 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 4.69 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Logica CMG | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.80 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 2.94 | 0.00 |
| Gyrus Group | 2.70 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.63 | 0.00 |
| Warner Estate Holdings | 2.48 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Topps Tiles PLC | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.37 | 0.00 |
| Wilson Bowden | 1.18 | 0.00 |
| Brown N. Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 0.82 | 0.00 |
| Atkins Global | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| IMI Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Northgate Information Solution | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| RHM | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Aggreko | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Avis Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CLS Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Countrywide PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gondola Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Insight Fnd Tst | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Keller Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Tr | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray Intern Tr | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendragon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates & Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources Ld | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smiths DS | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberforth Smaller Co Tr
- Berkeley Group
- Carpetright
- Cobham
- Dana Petroleum
- Electra Investment Trust
- Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries
- Mitchells & Butlers PLC
- Melrose PLC
- Randgold Resources Ld
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- AGA Foodservice Group
- Aggreko
- Ashtead Group
- Avis Europe
- Bodycote International
- BSS Group
- Capital & Regional
- Carpetright
- Close Brothers Group
- CLS Holdings
- Countrywide PLC
- Smiths DS
- Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
- Gondola Holdings
- Greene King PLC
- Hays
- Henderson Group
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Insight Fnd Tst
- Intertek Group
- JKX Oil & Gas
- Keller Group
- Meggitt
- Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
- MITIE Group PLC
- Murray Income Tr
- Murray Intern Tr
- Pendragon
- Provident Financial
- Quintain Estates & Development
- Randgold Resources Ld
- Regus Group
- Spirent
- Taylor Nelson Sofres
- VT Group
- Weir Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Aegis Group
- Burberry Group
- Restaurant Group
- Crest Nicholson
- Debenhams
- De La Rue
- Fidelity European Values
- Headlam Group
- Hochschild Mining
- JPMorgan Growth
- JP Morgan Fleming Japanese IT
- JP Morgan Fleming Mercantile
- Templeton Emerging Market IT
PDF testing
15.4% 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/badquery None |
86.33% |
| file/url/offtop None |
5.78% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.10% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.09% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
0.95% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.73% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
0.58% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.49% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.47% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.36% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.60% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
19.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
13.58% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.84% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
6.67% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.68% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
4.97% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.25% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.05% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.46% |