November 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Nov 2007
- Total URLs tested:
49,225
- Total tests run:
16,046,043
- Total number of PDF's:
1,843
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.50%
- Pages failing code standards:
72.90%
- Pages missing a title:
0.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.34%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.38%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 72,474 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 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 98.44 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.62 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 90.70 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 69.84 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 57.60 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 49.60 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 14.29 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 11.81 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.34 |
| 3I Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| 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 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 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 & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Aviva | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.20 | 43.20 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 98.43 | 0.79 |
| Xstrata | 98.41 | 11.11 |
| Northern Rock | 98.40 | 45.60 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 97.64 | 0.79 |
| British Energy Group | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 95.35 | 0.78 |
| Smith & Nephew | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Next | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| INVESCO | 91.53 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 91.20 | 9.60 |
| Standard Life | 90.40 | 1.60 |
| National Grid | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| BP | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 74.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 62.99 | 7.87 |
| Tate & Lyle | 38.89 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 26.36 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 21.09 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Barratt Developments
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
22.8% 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 |
30.31% |
| file/url/badquery None |
23.53% |
| file/url/offtop None |
9.76% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.23% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
6.53% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.86% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.73% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.72% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
2.51% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.45% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
31.93% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
31.72% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.66% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.02% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.64% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.42% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.61% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.13% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.93% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.39% |