July 2007/FTSE 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    16 Jul 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    46,569

  • Total tests run:

    15,179,125

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,700

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.27%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    71.32%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.97%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    19.02%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    93.67%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 63,195 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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)
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Organisation A AA
Land Securities Grou​p100.00100.00
Daily Mail &​ General Trust100.0097.62
Sage Group100.0096.83
Kingfisher100.0072.44
British Land Co100.0057.14
J Sainsbury100.0015.87
BT Group100.0011.90
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.008.73
Aviva100.006.20
British American Tob​acco100.005.43
Resolution100.003.20
Imperial Chemical In​dustries100.002.38
HBOS100.001.60
International Power100.001.56
Rexam100.000.78
3I Group100.000.00
Bhp Billiton100.000.00
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Capita Group100.000.00
DSG International100.000.00
Drax Group100.000.00
Experian Group100.000.00
Hammerson100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
ICAP100.000.00
Lloyds TSB Group100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
United Utilities100.000.00
Yell Group100.000.00
Northern Rock99.2257.03
Friends Provident99.220.00
SABMiller99.220.00
Legal &​ General Group99.2136.51
BAE Systems99.210.00
ITV99.210.00
Centrica99.209.60
Mitchells &​ Butlers99.200.80
Severn Trent99.200.80
Xstrata98.441.56
Scottish &​ Newcastle98.440.00
British Airways98.430.00
HSBC Holdings plc98.410.00
Wpp Group98.410.00
Royal Dutch Shell98.400.00
British Energy Group​97.660.00
Prudential97.660.00
Wolseley97.620.00
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up97.606.40
Hanson96.800.80
Anglo American96.120.00
Royal &​ Sun Alliance Insura​nce Group96.120.00
Shire96.120.00
Kelda Group96.030.00
Marks &​ Spencer Group96.000.00
Standard Life96.000.00
Tesco95.313.91
Bg Group95.200.80
Schroders94.576.98
Alliance &​ Leicester94.570.00
Vodafone Group94.530.00
Associated British F​oods94.440.00
Smith &​ Nephew94.440.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy93.800.00
National Grid93.750.00
BP89.681.59
Next87.300.00
Pearson86.400.00
Smiths Group86.050.00
Standard Chartered85.940.00
Rio Tinto85.040.00
GlaxoSmithKline84.800.00
Diageo84.130.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group84.000.00
Whitbread83.330.00
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets81.600.00
Barclays80.800.80
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group79.200.00
Liberty Internationa​l66.400.00
Tate &​ Lyle58.270.00
Compass Group53.540.00
INVESCO48.000.00
Reed Elsevier47.290.00
Lonmin22.400.00
Reckitt Benckiser19.690.00
Vedanta Resources10.001.67
SEGRO6.350.00
Rolls-Royce Group3.170.00
Punch Taverns3.120.00
Persimmon2.520.00
Barratt Developments​1.600.00
Cable &​ Wireless1.600.00
Reuters Group0.800.00
Johnson Matthey0.780.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Kazakhmys0.000.00
Man Group0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • BAE Systems
  • British American Tobacco
  • Cadbury Schweppes
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Kazakhmys
  • Man Group
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
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PDF testing

23.3% 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
29.29%
file/url/badpath
None
18.29%
file/url/offtop
None
14.73%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
9.94%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.64%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.76%
file/html/longmeta
None
3.15%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
3.11%
file/html/notitle
None
2.06%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.82%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
35.19%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
33.14%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.10%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.24%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.70%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
3.76%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.38%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
2.48%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.53%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.98%