June 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Jun 2007
- Total URLs tested:
46,641
- Total tests run:
15,210,923
- Total number of PDF's:
2,023
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.06%
- Pages failing code standards:
70.82%
- Pages missing a title:
1.21%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.15%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.51%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,863 failures
- Fastest average response time:
BT Group (http://www.btplc.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 98.43 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 75.78 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 70.87 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 15.75 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 6.20 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 5.43 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| Hanson | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 1.55 |
| 3I Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 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 |
| HBOS | 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 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| ITV | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Legal & General Group | 98.45 | 37.21 |
| Smiths Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 97.64 | 9.45 |
| Prudential | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 96.80 | 7.20 |
| Anglo American | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 95.20 | 8.80 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 93.80 | 3.88 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| BP | 92.06 | 3.97 |
| Rio Tinto | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 87.20 | 58.40 |
| Pearson | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 80.16 | 0.79 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Next | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 73.44 | 0.00 |
| Liberty International | 60.80 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 57.81 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 52.76 | 0.00 |
| INVESCO | 48.00 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 46.40 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 44.00 | 8.80 |
| Lonmin | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| SEGRO | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.17 | 1.69 |
| Cable & Wireless | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 0.82 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters 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.
- BAE Systems
- British American Tobacco
- Cadbury Schweppes
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
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/badpath None |
21.93% |
| file/url/offtop None |
18.51% |
| file/url/badquery None |
14.63% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
11.87% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
6.64% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.91% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.00% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.88% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.61% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.95% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.79% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
31.61% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.20% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
6.54% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.44% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.93% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.58% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.28% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.62% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.48% |