2007 Q1/Mediasurface Telco
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Mar 2007
- Total URLs tested:
54,659
- Total tests run:
17,811,469
- Total number of PDF's:
1,819
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.58%
- Pages failing code standards:
83.49%
- Pages missing a title:
3.29%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
61.59%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.69%
- Poorest code quality:
Eircom (http://www.eircom.com/) - 178,773 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Hypertag (http://www.hypertag.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury Telecom | 100.00 | 13.04 |
| Smart Telecom | 100.00 | 12.00 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Skype | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Telspec | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| 4D Telecom | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ascom | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mediaburst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mitel Networks | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| O2 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Patientline UK | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Sense Internet | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| TelecityRedbus | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Telstra Europe | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tiscali UK | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| COLT | 98.45 | 0.78 |
| Genesis Communications | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Level 3 Communications | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Mobile | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Teleware | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Redstone | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| T-Mobile | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 95.56 | 0.00 |
| Chess Telecom | 94.59 | 0.00 |
| NTT Europe Online | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Data Connection | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Dot Mobile | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Eurotel | 91.30 | 0.00 |
| Armstrong Communications | 91.18 | 0.00 |
| Interoute | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Telent | 87.10 | 0.00 |
| Refresh Mobile | 86.67 | 86.67 |
| Pipex Communications | 86.67 | 0.00 |
| VSNL Telecommunications UK | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Orange | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Alcatel-Lucent | 80.47 | 0.00 |
| Opal Telecom | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| TalkTalk | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| MLL Telecom | 76.36 | 0.00 |
| Sony Ericsson | 69.84 | 0.00 |
| AOL UK | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| The Number 118 118 | 68.75 | 0.00 |
| Hypertag | 68.09 | 0.00 |
| PageOne Communications | 64.29 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Bailey Teswaine | 54.39 | 0.00 |
| Direct Save Telecom | 53.85 | 0.00 |
| first:telecom | 49.12 | 0.00 |
| Your Communications | 48.15 | 1.85 |
| Mobestar | 41.18 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Media | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Neos Networks | 37.50 | 0.00 |
| NEG Telecom | 36.54 | 0.00 |
| Dial-a-Phone | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Nortel | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Manx Telecom | 28.91 | 0.00 |
| Viatel | 18.60 | 0.00 |
| FLAG Telecom | 14.29 | 0.00 |
| Euphony Communications | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| Vislink | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| Premier Communications | 10.71 | 0.00 |
| Arkadin | 9.76 | 0.00 |
| ISIS Telecommunications | 8.89 | 0.00 |
| STL Communications | 8.62 | 0.00 |
| Geo | 8.33 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Symphony Telecom | 7.69 | 0.00 |
| Telecom Plus | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Global Crossing | 4.80 | 0.80 |
| Spectrum Interactive | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Alpha Telecom | 3.23 | 0.00 |
| NDS Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Verizon Business UK | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| AQL | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Azzurri Communications | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| ECI Telecom | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Avaya UK | 2.38 | 1.59 |
| Ericsson | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Zen Internet | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone | 2.33 | 0.00 |
| AT Communications Group | 1.80 | 0.90 |
| PNC Telecom | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| Damovo | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Alternative Networks | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Sky Blue Telecom | 1.11 | 0.00 |
| Adam Phones | 0.83 | 0.00 |
| BT Ireland | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Callserve Communications | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Claranet | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Telecom Direct | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| South West Communications Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Toucan Telecom | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Orange Business Services | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| 4Com | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A-Novo | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Arqiva | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Avonline | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bango | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Boltblue | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cellcast | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dynmark International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| EDCommunications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Easynet | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Eircom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Elite Mobile | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Eurolink Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| European Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Genesys Conferencing | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| IDN Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| IDT Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jersey Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Maintel Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mason Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| National Grid Wireless | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Netsize | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| NextiraOne | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nokia | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OneBill Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pennine Telecom | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Phones 4u | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| SITA Networks | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spitfire Technology Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| THUS | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Cloud | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Vanco | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VarTec | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Dynmark International
- Mercury Telecom
- NEG Telecom
- Refresh Mobile
- Telspec
- OneBill Telecom
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- 4Com
- A-Novo
- Arqiva
- Avonline
- Bango
- Boltblue
- Cellcast
- Dynmark International
- EDCommunications
- Eircom
- Elite Mobile
- Eurolink Telecom
- European Telecom
- Genesys Conferencing
- IDN Telecom
- IDT Europe
- Jersey Telecom
- Maintel Holdings
- Mason Communications
- Netsize
- NextiraOne
- National Grid Wireless
- Nokia
- Pennine Telecom
- Phones 4u
- SITA Networks
- Spirent
- Spitfire Technology Group
- The Cloud
- THUS
- Easynet
- Vanco
- VarTec
- OneBill Telecom
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Affiniti
- Dextra Solutions
- Hi-Port Telecom
- Kingston Communications
- KN Network Services
- Telsphere
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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
38.84% |
| file/url/badpath None |
21.62% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.54% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
5.63% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.92% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.56% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.52% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.60% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.60% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.48% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
34.62% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
31.25% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.48% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.50% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.77% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.75% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.55% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.35% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.70% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.52% |