March 2007/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Mar 2007
- Total URLs tested:
38,593
- Total tests run:
12,543,427
- Total number of PDF's:
27
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.61%
- Pages failing code standards:
92.84%
- Pages missing a title:
2.10%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
68.69%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.89%
- Poorest code quality:
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) - 52,621 failures
- Fastest average response time:
BBC News (http://news.bbc.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Channel 4 News | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| FT | 94.49 | 0.79 |
| Wall Street Journal | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 23.08 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 11.90 | 0.79 |
| Observer | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Washington Post | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 5.60 | 0.80 |
| Times Online | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| New York Times | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| The Business | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Bloomberg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Sky News
- Bloomberg
- CNBC
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
0.00% 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 |
36.06% |
| file/url/badquery None |
15.20% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
15.17% |
| file/url/offtop None |
10.90% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.62% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.50% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.61% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.61% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.58% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.41% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
39.20% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
36.96% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.02% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.54% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.78% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.73% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.66% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.28% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.84% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.43% |