August 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Aug 2007
- Total URLs tested:
47,351
- Total tests run:
15,437,409
- Total number of PDF's:
1,859
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.51%
- Pages failing code standards:
70.78%
- Pages missing a title:
0.99%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
18.79%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
92.72%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 64,551 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 96.83 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 70.40 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 68.25 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 44.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 19.53 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 5.47 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 99.20 | 53.60 |
| British Land Co | 99.20 | 48.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.20 | 29.60 |
| Smiths Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 98.40 | 8.00 |
| Friends Provident | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 98.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 97.64 | 2.36 |
| Severn Trent | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 96.88 | 12.50 |
| Vodafone Group | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Hanson | 94.40 | 1.60 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| BP | 92.06 | 3.17 |
| Whitbread | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 89.15 | 0.78 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Next | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 77.60 | 16.80 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 65.87 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 60.63 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 56.59 | 0.00 |
| INVESCO | 49.02 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 43.65 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| SEGRO | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- BAE Systems
- British American Tobacco
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Land Securities Group
- National Grid
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
25.1% 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/badpath None |
21.96% |
| file/url/badquery None |
20.12% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.61% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
11.13% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.13% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.76% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.53% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.18% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.05% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.33% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.39% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
31.43% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.25% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.14% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.89% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.43% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.26% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.30% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.87% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.45% |