May 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 May 2007
- Total URLs tested:
46,263
- Total tests run:
15,083,107
- Total number of PDF's:
1,832
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.13%
- Pages failing code standards:
70.39%
- Pages missing a title:
1.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.37%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.00%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 65,966 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.62 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 90.62 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 74.80 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 69.05 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 15.08 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 8.66 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 5.47 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 5.43 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| Hanson | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 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 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.22 | 42.64 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.21 | 55.56 |
| BAE Systems | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Smiths Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| SABMiller | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 97.64 | 24.41 |
| HBOS | 97.62 | 1.59 |
| Severn Trent | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 97.60 | 6.40 |
| British Airways | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Next | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 90.16 | 0.00 |
| BP | 89.68 | 3.97 |
| Associated British Foods | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 88.19 | 3.94 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 80.95 | 0.79 |
| Tate & Lyle | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 76.80 | 4.80 |
| Northern Rock | 61.90 | 40.48 |
| Liberty International | 59.52 | 0.00 |
| Amvescap | 49.18 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 46.88 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 30.23 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 23.02 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 16.28 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.17 | 1.69 |
| Slough Estates | 6.30 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 0.93 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Carnival
- Yell Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
26.7% 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 |
34.97% |
| file/url/badpath None |
15.74% |
| file/url/offtop None |
14.29% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.87% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
5.45% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.64% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
3.34% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.15% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.95% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.28% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
35.66% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.58% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.25% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.00% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.55% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.74% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.83% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.44% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.67% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.74% |