2007 Q2/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
18 Jun 2007
- Total URLs tested:
91,439
- Total tests run:
29,843,385
- Total number of PDF's:
4,835
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
79.29%
- Pages missing a title:
2.73%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
43.08%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.69%
- Poorest code quality:
Autonomy Corporation (http://www.autonomy.com/) - 83,221 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrusts.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marstons | 100.00 | 55.91 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 49.30 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 100.00 | 32.03 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 20.00 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 17.60 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 14.84 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 6.45 |
| Homeserve | 100.00 | 3.12 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dunelm Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMI Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Invista Foundation Property Trust | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendragon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Woodrow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| National Express Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Venture Production | 99.20 | 30.40 |
| Baillie Gifford : Monks / Scottish Inv Tr | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Carillion | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Helical Bar | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Amlin | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Game Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 98.40 | 44.80 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 96.90 | 68.22 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 96.88 | 1.56 |
| William Hill | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 96.77 | 3.23 |
| Abbot Group | 96.70 | 1.10 |
| HMV Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 95.45 | 1.82 |
| Luminar | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 95.24 | 18.25 |
| Bunzl | 94.78 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 94.69 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Parkman | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| UK Coal | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 93.02 | 9.30 |
| Burren Energy | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 92.00 | 16.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Assura | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 89.77 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 89.60 | 27.20 |
| Unite Group | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| British Assets Trust | 87.40 | 0.00 |
| First Choice Holidays | 87.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Computacenter | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Galiform | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Wimpey George | 84.00 | 1.60 |
| Petrofac | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 83.20 | 15.20 |
| Travis Perkins | 83.13 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 82.03 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls | 80.00 | 0.80 |
| Northgate | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| McAlpine (Alfred) | 75.59 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 75.40 | 0.00 |
| Paragon Group Of Companies | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 73.53 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 72.22 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 68.33 | 0.00 |
| Charter | 67.19 | 0.00 |
| Sthree | 66.67 | 66.67 |
| Balfour Beatty | 65.35 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 64.29 | 0.79 |
| Interserve | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 58.91 | 0.00 |
| Speedy Hire | 57.94 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 53.60 | 4.00 |
| Admiral Group | 45.78 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 41.23 | 0.00 |
| Minerva | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 39.68 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 37.30 | 0.00 |
| Helphire Group | 36.73 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 32.03 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 31.75 | 0.79 |
| JJB Sports | 24.60 | 0.79 |
| Morgan Sindall | 24.41 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 23.08 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 22.66 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Collins Stewart | 20.25 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 19.74 | 0.00 |
| Galliford Try | 17.97 | 0.00 |
| Brixton | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| Detica Group | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Gyrus Group | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| Mytravel Group | 9.45 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Soco International | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 5.43 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 5.00 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 4.88 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 3.92 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.80 | 0.00 |
| Warner Estate Holdings | 3.28 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.63 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Grainger | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.32 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.85 | 0.00 |
| Northgate Information Solutions | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Aggreko | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Avis Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CLS Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh US Tracker Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LogicaCMG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates And Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Topps Tiles | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wincanton | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Berkeley Group Holdings
- Cobham
- Dana Petroleum
- Electra Private Equity
- Hochschild Mining
- Marstons
- Meggitt
- Melrose PLC
- Northumbrian Water Group
- Randgold Resources
- Signet Group
- Taylor Woodrow
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- AGA Foodservice Group
- Aggreko
- Ashtead Group
- Avis Europe
- Bodycote International
- BSS Group
- Candover Investments
- Capital & Regional
- Carpetright
- Close Brothers Group
- CLS Holdings
- Smith (DS)
- Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
- Edinburgh US Tracker Trust
- Greene King
- Hays
- Henderson Group
- Hochschild Mining
- Intermediate Capital Group
- JKX Oil & Gas
- Keller
- LogicaCMG
- Meggitt
- Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
- MITIE Group
- Murray Income Trust
- Murray International Trust
- Provident Financial
- Quintain Estates And Development
- Randgold Resources
- Spirent Communications
- Temple Bar Investment Trust
- Taylor Nelson Sofres
- Topps Tiles
- VT Group
- Weir Group
- Wincanton
- Witan Investment Trust
- Woolworths Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Aegis Group
- Burberry Group
- Restaurant Group
- Colt Telecom Group
- Debenhams
- De La Rue
- Expro International Group
- Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst)
- Headlam Group
- JP Morgan
- Templeton Emerging Markets IT
PDF testing
16.7% 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 |
88.49% |
| file/url/offtop None |
3.76% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.12% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
0.99% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.79% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.75% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.67% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.44% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.41% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.35% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.38% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
19.70% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
11.35% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
9.44% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.28% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.19% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
5.39% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.63% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.18% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.94% |