April 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
16 Apr 2007
- Total URLs tested:
47,636
- Total tests run:
15,532,920
- Total number of PDF's:
1,970
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.01%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.39%
- Pages missing a title:
1.11%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
20.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.05%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 66,233 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.60 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 90.55 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 76.38 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 65.12 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 14.17 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 13.49 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 7.81 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 6.20 |
| Hanson | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 3I Group | 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 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.21 | 27.56 |
| BAE Systems | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 98.44 | 44.53 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 98.41 | 11.90 |
| Next | 98.40 | 12.00 |
| Severn Trent | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 96.83 | 1.59 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.83 | 0.79 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.06 | 0.79 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 93.75 | 11.72 |
| Whitbread | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| BP | 89.60 | 1.60 |
| Schroders | 88.28 | 4.69 |
| Rio Tinto | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 82.40 | 2.40 |
| Smiths Group | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 81.60 | 16.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 74.60 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 65.35 | 4.72 |
| Northern Rock | 63.49 | 39.68 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Liberty International | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Amvescap | 49.18 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 20.93 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.63 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.17 | 1.69 |
| Cable & Wireless | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Carnival
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
- Persimmon
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
25.8% 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 |
23.77% |
| file/url/offtop None |
22.85% |
| file/url/badpath None |
16.43% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.81% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
5.27% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.88% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.71% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.61% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.34% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.09% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
34.98% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.17% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.66% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.10% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.92% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.31% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.67% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.91% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.19% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.44% |