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FTSE 100 November 2007

Error free sites

  • British American Tobacco
  • Smiths Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Barratt Developments
  • Carnival
  • Kazakhmys

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 19.34
Poorest code quality: Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 72,474 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.

22.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 30.31%
file/url/badquery 23.53%
file/url/offtop 9.76%
url/fetch/badcookie 8.23%
url/fetch/notfound 6.53%
file/html/badmeta 4.86%
url/mail/exception 2.73%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.72%
url/fetch/timeout 2.51%
file/html/longmeta 2.45%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 31.93%
file/html/badentity 31.72%
file/html/tagnotallowed 12.66%
file/html/badattr 8.02%
file/html/badvalue 4.64%
file/html/closingunopened 3.42%
file/html/unknowntag 2.61%
file/html/missingclose 2.13%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.93%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.39%