July 2007/Mobile Phones



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    04 Jul 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    13,355

  • Total tests run:

    4,341,181

  • Total number of PDF's:

    31

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.54%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    91.93%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.06%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    56.96%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.42%

  • Poorest code quality:

    The Carphone Warehouse (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/) - 50,152 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Orange UK (http://www.orange.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
O2100.000.00
Virgin Mobile97.640.00
PhoneShop95.280.00
Tesco Mobile95.246.35
T-Mobile82.540.79
Orange UK82.400.00
357.600.80
Dial-a-Phone24.410.00
Phones4U3.970.00
The Link3.150.79
Vodafone2.400.00
Direct Mobile Phones​0.800.00
The Carphone Warehou​se0.800.00
Phones 2U Direct0.000.00
The Phone Spot0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Phones 2U Direct
  • The Phone Spot
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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PDF testing

3.23% 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/badquery
None
43.44%
file/url/offtop
None
36.00%
file/url/badpath
None
18.34%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.48%
file/url/badauthority
None
0.31%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.26%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
0.23%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.23%
file/html/notitle
None
0.20%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.17%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
33.45%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
30.10%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
12.44%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
10.32%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.88%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.60%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.08%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.39%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
0.23%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.20%