May 2007/Construction
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
14 May 2007
- Total URLs tested:
15,330
- Total tests run:
4,999,670
- Total number of PDF's:
670
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.45%
- Pages failing code standards:
75.53%
- Pages missing a title:
0.92%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
44.24%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.91%
- Poorest code quality:
Faber Maunsell (http://www.fabermaunsell.com/) - 51,725 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Edmund Nuttall Ltd (http://www.edmund-nuttall.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Group plc | 100.00 | 31.78 |
| Arup | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Engineering Construction Industry Traini | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Heywood Williams Group plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| MJ Gleeson Group plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mott MacDonald Group Ltd | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vinci Plc | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| J Murphy & Sons Ltd | 98.94 | 44.68 |
| Faber Maunsell | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group plc | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Carillion Plc | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Mace | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Houserate Ltd ( HANSON) | 94.40 | 1.60 |
| Crest Nicholson PLC | 92.59 | 0.00 |
| Alfred McAlpine PLC | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Construction Services Ltd | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Lafarge Cement | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Tarmac Ltd | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls Plc | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| George Wimpey PLC | 56.25 | 0.00 |
| Halcrow Group | 52.80 | 1.60 |
| Jewson Ltd | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Bovis Lend Lease | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| SIG plc | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Wilson Bowden | 2.50 | 0.00 |
| Ardmore Construction Ltd | 2.04 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments Plc | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon plc | 0.98 | 0.00 |
| Skanska UK Plc | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Amey Plc | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ashsted Plant Hire | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bechtel Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cemex) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Edmund Nuttall Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Fairview New Homes Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laing O'Rourke Plc | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Portakabin Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Shepherd Building Group Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Berkeley Group plc
- Fairview New Homes Ltd
- Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Amey Plc
- Ashsted Plant Hire
- Bechtel Ltd
- Cemex)
- Edmund Nuttall Ltd
- Fairview New Homes Ltd
- Laing O'Rourke Plc
- Portakabin Ltd
- Shepherd Building Group Ltd
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- ITW
- Mc Nicholas Construction Services
- O'Rourke Investments Plc
PDF testing
5.97% 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/offtop None |
64.87% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
10.65% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
8.62% |
| file/url/badpath None |
6.64% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.57% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.74% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.44% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.84% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.78% |
| url/mailto/badaddr None |
0.42% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
50.40% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
12.77% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
11.19% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.20% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.03% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
5.87% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.84% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.95% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.94% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.29% |