April 2007/Trains
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Apr 2007
- Total URLs tested:
32,439
- Total tests run:
10,578,399
- Total number of PDF's:
1,374
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.02%
- Pages failing code standards:
66.54%
- Pages missing a title:
3.70%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
28.49%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.54%
- Poorest code quality:
Department for Transport (http://www.dft.gov.uk/) - 33,266 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Porterbrook (http://www.porterbrook.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hull Trains | 100.00 | 29.37 |
| Gatwick Express | 100.00 | 8.66 |
| Stansted Express | 100.00 | 7.14 |
| Heathrow Express | 100.00 | 4.72 |
| Rail Safety and Standards Board | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Central Trains | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chiltern Railways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Institution of Railway Operators | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Midland Mainline | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| National Rail | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Network Rail - (formerly Railtrack) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ORR - Office of the Rail Regulator | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RPCs - Rail Passengers Council and Committees | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Railway Technology | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Silverlink Train Services | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| c2c | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead | 99.22 | 3.10 |
| Arriva Trains Wales | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Railfuture | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ScotRail | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ATOC - Association of Train Operating Companies | 98.08 | 19.23 |
| National Railway Museum | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| First Great Western | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| First Capital Connect | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Transport 2000 | 95.24 | 11.11 |
| London Underground | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Nottingham Express Transit | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Steam excursions and tours | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| West Coast Railway Company | 94.12 | 0.00 |
| Oyster Card | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rail | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| South Eastern Trains | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Docklands Light Railway | 89.47 | 0.00 |
| Eurostar | 88.00 | 7.20 |
| PLUSBUS | 85.94 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Trains | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Railway Heritage Association | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Railway Study Association | 79.17 | 0.00 |
| Sheffield Supertram | 78.43 | 5.88 |
| Careers and recruitment | 74.19 | 0.00 |
| South West Trains | 70.87 | 0.00 |
| Great North Eastern Railway | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| First Group | 64.57 | 3.94 |
| A C Locomotivegroup | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| Glasgow Underground | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Porterbrook | 52.46 | 0.00 |
| Railway Children - Charity | 51.90 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Tyne & Wear Metro | 41.27 | 0.00 |
| Railway Mission | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| Island Line | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Manchester Metrolink | 23.08 | 0.00 |
| West Coast Railway Co. | 22.22 | 0.00 |
| Trakkies - for children of all ages | 20.73 | 0.00 |
| Bombardier | 8.73 | 0.00 |
| Railway Forum | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Railwatch | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| APT-P | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Midland Metro | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Alstom | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| SettleCarlisle Partnership | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Rail Freight Group | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ERTMS | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LocoScene | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyrail | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Train Chartering Company Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| one | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- APT-P
- Glasgow Underground
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships
- ERTMS
- LocoScene
- Merseyrail
- one
- The Train Chartering Company Ltd
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- BritRail - for overseas visitors
- Keeping Track
PDF testing
17.0% 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 |
65.95% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.58% |
| file/url/badpath None |
4.07% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
3.84% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.41% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.32% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.24% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.80% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.75% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.48% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
23.49% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
22.60% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
18.44% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
11.81% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
9.27% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.08% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.79% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.80% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.46% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.39% |