October 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Oct 2007
- Total URLs tested:
48,297
- Total tests run:
15,730,351
- Total number of PDF's:
1,301
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.06%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.30%
- Pages missing a title:
0.69%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
16.90%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.60%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 65,004 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 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 70.63 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 64.34 |
| Northern Rock | 100.00 | 54.33 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 44.88 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 20.47 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 9.60 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 6.20 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.34 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 1.55 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 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 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 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 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Aviva | 99.21 | 3.17 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 98.41 | 1.59 |
| BAE Systems | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 98.40 | 9.60 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.12 | 0.78 |
| Shire | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 96.00 | 9.60 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 87.30 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| BP | 85.94 | 1.56 |
| Diageo | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 82.95 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 82.54 | 8.73 |
| Bg Group | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 80.31 | 9.45 |
| Next | 76.38 | 0.00 |
| INVESCO | 50.98 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 36.43 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| Punch Taverns | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 3.03 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Daily Mail & General Trust
- Experian Group
- Land Securities Group
- Smiths Group
- Taylor Wimpey
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
20.0% 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 |
38.43% |
| file/url/badpath None |
25.81% |
| file/url/offtop None |
8.35% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
7.31% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
5.49% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.10% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.24% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.00% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.11% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.92% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.40% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
30.27% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.65% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.45% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.30% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.02% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.82% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.20% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.98% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.37% |