July 2007/Trains
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Jul 2007
- Total URLs tested:
34,426
- Total tests run:
11,223,238
- Total number of PDF's:
1,338
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.13%
- Pages failing code standards:
70.14%
- Pages missing a title:
4.80%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
29.34%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.82%
- Poorest code quality:
Steam excursions and tours (http://www.uksteam.info/tours/index.htm) - 26,029 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Porterbrook (http://www.porterbrook.co.uk/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted Express | 100.00 | 33.33 |
| Gatwick Express | 100.00 | 27.27 |
| National Rail | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Go-Ahead | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Central Trains | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chiltern Railways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Docklands Light Railway | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Institution of Railway Operators | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Network Rail - (formerly Railtrack) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ORR - Office of the Rail Regulator | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RPCs - Rail Passengers Council and Committees | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Railway Technology | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Silverlink Train Services | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| c2c | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arriva Trains Wales | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| First Capital Connect | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Railfuture | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ScotRail | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Eurostar | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Midland Mainline | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Hull Trains | 98.41 | 30.95 |
| Rail Safety and Standards Board | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| ATOC - Association of Train Operating Companies | 98.08 | 19.23 |
| National Railway Museum | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Transport 2000 | 96.09 | 8.59 |
| First Great Western | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Nottingham Express Transit | 95.20 | 1.60 |
| Steam excursions and tours | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| London Underground | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rail | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Oyster Card | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| PLUSBUS | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| West Coast Railway Company | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| South Eastern Trains | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| South West Trains | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Trains | 81.40 | 0.00 |
| Railway Heritage Association | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Railway Study Association | 79.17 | 0.00 |
| Sheffield Supertram | 78.43 | 5.88 |
| Careers and recruitment | 74.19 | 0.00 |
| Great North Eastern Railway | 65.35 | 0.00 |
| First Group | 62.99 | 4.72 |
| Heathrow Express | 57.14 | 21.43 |
| British Transport Police | 57.14 | 0.00 |
| Railway Children - Charity | 56.79 | 0.00 |
| West Coast Railway Co. | 56.25 | 0.00 |
| A C Locomotivegroup | 54.69 | 0.00 |
| Porterbrook | 53.23 | 0.00 |
| Glasgow Underground | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Railway Mission | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| Island Line | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Manchester Metrolink | 23.38 | 0.00 |
| Tyne & Wear Metro | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| Trakkies - for children of all ages | 20.73 | 0.00 |
| Bombardier | 9.45 | 0.00 |
| Railwatch | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Railway Forum | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| APT-P | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Midland Metro | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Alstom | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| SettleâCarlisle Partnership | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Rail Freight Group | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ERTMS | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LocoScene | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyrail | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Train Chartering Company Ltd | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| one | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Docklands Light Railway
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Assoc. of Community Rail Partnerships
- ERTMS
- LocoScene
- Merseyrail
- one
- The Train Chartering Company Ltd
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- BritRail - for overseas visitors
- Keeping Track
PDF testing
11.8% 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/offtop None |
35.34% |
| file/url/badquery None |
22.31% |
| file/url/badpath None |
9.08% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.98% |
| file/html/notitle None |
6.98% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
5.79% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.91% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.06% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.00% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.00% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
24.53% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
19.23% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
17.97% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
17.12% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.33% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.62% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.52% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.19% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.43% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.33% |