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FTSE 100 October 2007

Error free sites

  • Daily Mail & General Trust
  • Experian Group
  • Land Securities Group
  • Smiths Group
  • Taylor Wimpey

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Man Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 16.90
Poorest code quality: Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 65,004 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.co.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

20.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 38.43%
file/url/badpath 25.81%
file/url/offtop 8.35%
url/fetch/badcookie 7.31%
url/fetch/notfound 5.49%
file/html/badmeta 4.10%
file/html/longmeta 2.24%
url/mail/exception 2.00%
file/html/notitle 1.11%
url/fetch/noaddr 0.92%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 32.40%
file/html/unknownentity 30.27%
file/html/tagnotallowed 13.65%
file/html/badattr 8.45%
file/html/badvalue 4.30%
file/html/closingunopened 3.02%
file/html/unknowntag 2.82%
file/html/missingclose 2.20%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.98%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.37%