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FTSE 100 June 2007

Error free sites

  • BAE Systems
  • British American Tobacco
  • Cadbury Schweppes

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Kazakhmys

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 19.15
Poorest code quality: Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,863 failures
Fastest overall average response time: BT Group (http://www.btplc.com/)

PDF testing

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.

25.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 21.93%
file/url/offtop 18.51%
file/url/badquery 14.63%
url/fetch/notfound 11.87%
url/fetch/badcookie 6.64%
file/html/longmeta 4.91%
file/html/badmeta 4.00%
url/mail/exception 3.88%
file/html/notitle 3.61%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.95%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 33.79%
file/html/unknownentity 31.61%
file/html/tagnotallowed 10.20%
file/html/unknowntag 6.54%
file/html/badattr 5.44%
file/html/badvalue 3.93%
file/html/closingunopened 3.58%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 2.28%
file/html/missingclose 1.62%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.48%