June 2007/Food and Beverage



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    08 Jun 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    18,041

  • Total tests run:

    5,877,885

  • Total number of PDF's:

    560

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.34%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    76.38%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.71%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    35.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    94.87%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Kraft Foods UK (http://www.kraftfoods.co.uk/) - 21,430 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Greeneking PLC (http://www.greeneking.co.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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
Northern Foods100.0069.77
Marstons100.0049.21
Weetabix100.0012.70
Bernard Matthews100.000.78
Bakkavor100.000.00
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Kraft Foods UK100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
Britvic99.210.00
SAB Miller97.670.00
Pataks97.6264.29
Scottish &​ Newcastle96.830.00
ABF94.490.00
Princes94.400.00
Heinz Europe92.970.00
InBev92.860.00
Coca-Cola Enterprise​s92.0611.90
Moy Park Food Servic​e89.600.00
Coors Brewers89.0611.72
Lyons Seafood88.100.00
Warburtons88.000.00
Diageo84.250.00
Cargill84.130.00
PepsiCo72.000.00
Birds Eye67.720.00
Premier Foods64.000.80
Compass Group63.280.00
Gate Gourmet London61.900.00
British Bakeries53.332.22
Tate &​ Lyle52.380.00
Kerry Foods19.530.00
British Sugar6.250.00
Avenance4.170.00
Arla Foods UK3.450.00
Sara Lee UK3.200.00
Del Monte Foods Inte​rnational2.630.00
3663 Foodservice2.380.00
Mars1.600.00
Young's Bluecrest1.100.00
Tulip Food Service0.800.00
Greencore0.790.00
Brake Brothers FoodS​ervice0.000.00
Burton's Foods0.000.00
G's Marketing0.000.00
Grampian Country Foo​ds Group0.000.00
Greeneking PLC0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Gate Gourmet London
  • Heinz Europe
  • Marstons
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Brake Brothers FoodService
  • Burton's Foods
  • Grampian Country Foods Group
  • Greeneking PLC
  • G's Marketing
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Aramark
  • Carlsberg
  • Friskies Petcare
  • Mc Cain Foods
  • United Biscuits
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PDF testing

17.9% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badpath
None
31.63%
file/url/offtop
None
27.18%
file/html/notitle
None
11.21%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.59%
file/url/badquery
None
8.47%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
2.68%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
2.32%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.77%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.40%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.16%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
25.78%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
24.87%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
13.09%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
11.75%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.62%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.09%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.85%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.74%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.09%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.03%