September 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
14 Sep 2007
- Total URLs tested:
46,399
- Total tests run:
15,121,535
- Total number of PDF's:
1,610
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.19%
- Pages failing code standards:
70.71%
- Pages missing a title:
0.59%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
18.21%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
92.97%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 65,344 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Vedanta Resources (http://www.vedantaresources.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 96.80 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 70.08 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 64.29 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 62.70 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 42.86 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 20.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 10.40 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 4.72 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.33 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 3I Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| 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 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 99.22 | 55.04 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Smiths Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.21 | 1.59 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| Bg Group | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 96.80 | 4.80 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 95.35 | 0.78 |
| Tesco | 95.31 | 5.47 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 93.60 | 13.60 |
| National Grid | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 85.94 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Next | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| BP | 80.80 | 2.40 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 79.53 | 0.00 |
| INVESCO | 50.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 32.54 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 22.22 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 15.87 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| Punch Taverns | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| SEGRO | 0.78 | 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.
- Next
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
- Wpp Group
PDF testing
19.7% 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/badpath None |
23.14% |
| file/url/badquery None |
20.22% |
| file/url/offtop None |
14.61% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
11.59% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.54% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.51% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.25% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.10% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.72% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.47% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
31.70% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.32% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.44% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.06% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.49% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.45% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.25% |
| 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 |
2.13% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.38% |