2007 Q3/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
18 Sep 2007
- Total URLs tested:
99,580
- Total tests run:
32,490,978
- Total number of PDF's:
4,903
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.85%
- Pages failing code standards:
77.99%
- Pages missing a title:
2.47%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
39.38%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.76%
- Poorest code quality:
Autonomy Corporation (http://www.autonomy.com/) - 84,304 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Greene King (http://www.greeneking.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marstons | 100.00 | 57.60 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 22.83 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 21.09 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 18.40 |
| Charter | 100.00 | 14.17 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 8.82 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 6.25 |
| Homeserve | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 5.47 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Aggreko | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Invista Foundation Property Trust | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendragon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Personal Finance | 99.22 | 26.36 |
| BSS Group | 99.21 | 24.41 |
| Colt Telecom Group | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Ashtead Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| WSP group | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| National Express Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Xchanging | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Amlin | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 98.43 | 8.66 |
| Game Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| UK Coal | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Venture Production | 98.40 | 32.00 |
| Kier Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 97.67 | 31.01 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 97.60 | 15.20 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 97.44 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Aegis Group | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 96.85 | 11.81 |
| Debenhams | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| William Hill | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Abbot Group | 96.70 | 1.10 |
| British Empire Securities | 96.55 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 96.12 | 65.12 |
| Carillion | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 96.00 | 12.80 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 95.59 | 1.47 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Baillie Gifford : Monks / Scottish Inv Tr | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 95.19 | 1.92 |
| Merchants Trust | 95.08 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 94.83 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Assura | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Burren Energy | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 92.97 | 16.41 |
| McAlpine (Alfred) | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 90.22 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 88.64 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| British Assets Trust | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Parkman | 85.94 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet | 85.83 | 0.79 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 83.87 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 81.75 | 18.25 |
| Galiform | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls | 79.53 | 0.79 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 76.74 | 0.00 |
| Axon Group | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 73.91 | 0.00 |
| Sports Direct International | 73.64 | 0.00 |
| Interserve | 70.63 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| Sthree | 66.67 | 66.67 |
| Paragon Group Of Companies | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 64.29 | 0.79 |
| Admiral Group | 62.07 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 61.29 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Minerva | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| Speedy Hire | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 51.18 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 46.03 | 0.00 |
| Brixton | 40.48 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 40.16 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 38.46 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 34.13 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 33.59 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| De La Rue | 31.01 | 0.78 |
| Grainger | 30.47 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Helphire Group | 25.71 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 22.40 | 0.80 |
| Collins Stewart | 20.25 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 19.74 | 0.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 18.11 | 0.00 |
| Galliford Try | 17.83 | 0.00 |
| Detica Group | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Luminar | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Gyrus Group | 11.94 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 11.81 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Soco International | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 7.87 | 0.00 |
| ITE Group | 7.76 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 7.03 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 7.03 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 5.00 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.80 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 3.45 | 0.00 |
| JJB Sports | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.63 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| QXL Ricardo | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Severfield-Rowen | 1.33 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.32 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.85 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Northgate Information Solutions | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Avis Europe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CLS Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Domestic & General Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh US Tracker Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LogicaCMG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch World Mining TST | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mondi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates And Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wincanton | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Berkeley Group Holdings
- Cobham
- Electra Private Equity
- Hochschild Mining
- Randgold Resources
- Signet Group
- Sports Direct International
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- AGA Foodservice Group
- Avis Europe
- Merrill Lynch World Mining TST
- Bodycote International
- Candover Investments
- Capital & Regional
- Catlin Group LD
- CLS Holdings
- Domestic & General Group
- Smith (DS)
- Edinburgh US Tracker Trust
- Greene King
- Hays
- Henderson Group
- Hochschild Mining
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Intertek Group
- JKX Oil & Gas
- LogicaCMG
- Meggitt
- MITIE Group
- Mondi
- Murray Income Trust
- Murray International Trust
- Pennon Group
- Provident Financial
- Quintain Estates And Development
- Randgold Resources
- Savills
- Spirent Communications
- Temple Bar Investment Trust
- VT Group
- Weir Group
- Wincanton
- Witan Investment Trust
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Burberry Group
- Restaurant Group
- Expro International Group
- Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst)
- Headlam Group
- JP Morgan
- Templeton Emerging Markets IT
PDF testing
19.0% 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/badquery None |
21.15% |
| file/url/badpath None |
19.93% |
| file/url/offtop None |
18.55% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.43% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
5.23% |
| file/html/notitle None |
4.59% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.97% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.86% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.84% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
2.46% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.37% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.09% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
12.04% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
10.10% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.20% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.69% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
5.07% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.27% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.91% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.84% |