2007 Q4/Mediasurface Telco



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    23 Nov 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    62,124

  • Total tests run:

    20,237,386

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,811

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.91%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    81.93%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.00%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    55.79%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.01%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Eircom (http://www.eircom.com/) - 124,423 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    The Number 118 118 (http://www.118118.com/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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)
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Organisation A AA
Arkadin100.0098.44
Sense Internet100.0095.45
BT Group100.0088.00
Telstra Europe100.004.72
South West Communica​tions Group100.003.51
Telspec100.000.80
Ascom100.000.00
Chess Telecom100.000.00
Mitel Networks100.000.00
NTT Europe Online100.000.00
NextiraOne100.000.00
Pennine Telecom100.000.00
Skype100.000.00
Symphony Telecom100.000.00
TelecityRedbus100.000.00
Claranet99.220.00
O299.213.15
Interoute98.453.10
Alcatel-Lucent98.410.00
Inmarsat98.410.00
Virgin Mobile98.410.00
Redstone97.600.00
Easynet96.850.00
T-Mobile96.802.40
Teleware96.800.00
Patientline UK95.000.00
AT&​T94.440.00
MLL Telecom93.600.00
The Number 118 11893.330.00
4Com92.860.00
Data Connection92.060.00
Mercury Telecom92.004.00
Tiscali UK91.204.80
Armstrong Communicat​ions91.180.00
AOL UK90.000.00
Manx Telecom89.840.00
Smart Telecom89.610.00
Zen Internet88.890.00
Genesis Communicatio​ns88.000.00
Dot Mobile87.600.00
Sony Ericsson86.610.79
TalkTalk86.510.00
Telent85.600.00
Admiral Group85.250.00
Nortel83.720.00
4D Telecom82.350.00
Mobestar80.8048.00
Opal Telecom80.800.00
Eurotel80.770.00
380.004.00
The Cloud79.3162.07
Level 3 Communicatio​ns79.200.00
Neos Networks71.430.00
Hypertag71.150.00
COLT67.720.79
Motorola64.290.00
VSNL Telecommunicati​ons UK60.160.00
Direct Save Telecom58.620.00
Adam Phones57.480.00
PageOne Communicatio​ns53.170.00
BT Ireland51.280.00
Your Communications48.151.85
Bailey Teswaine47.760.00
first:telecom46.670.00
Virgin Media40.800.00
Arqiva38.760.00
NEG Telecom36.540.00
Windsor Telecom26.400.00
Azzurri Communicatio​ns25.980.00
Affiniti23.200.00
Dial-a-Phone20.000.80
Orange15.200.00
FLAG Telecom12.400.00
Vislink12.240.00
ECI Telecom12.000.00
Viatel10.240.00
ISIS Telecom9.650.00
Spectrum Interactive​9.520.00
STL Communications8.060.00
Damovo8.000.80
Geo6.760.00
Cisco Systems6.400.00
Euphony Communicatio​ns5.880.00
Ericsson5.600.00
Telecom Plus4.800.00
NDS Group4.000.00
Orange Business Serv​ices3.880.00
Verizon Business UK3.880.00
Global Crossing3.170.00
Pipex Communications​2.560.00
Carphone Warehouse G​roup2.400.00
Cable &​ Wireless2.380.00
AT Communications Gr​oup1.740.87
Vodafone1.600.00
Sky Blue Telecom1.110.00
Toucan Telecom0.800.00
Callserve Communicat​ions0.790.00
Phones 4u0.790.00
Avaya UK0.780.00
Maintel Holdings0.000.79
A-Novo0.000.00
ANT Software0.000.00
AQL0.000.00
AVST0.000.00
Alpha Telecom0.000.00
Alternative Networks​0.000.00
Avonline0.000.00
Bango0.000.00
Boltblue0.000.00
Cellcast0.000.00
Dynmark Internationa​l0.000.00
EDCommunications0.000.00
Eircom0.000.00
Elite Mobile0.000.00
Eurolink Telecom0.000.00
Genesys Conferencing​0.000.00
IDN Telecom0.000.00
IDT Europe0.000.00
Invomo0.000.00
Jersey Telecom0.000.00
Lebara0.000.00
Mason Communications​0.000.00
Mediaburst0.000.00
National Grid Wirele​ss0.000.00
Netsize0.000.00
Nokia0.000.00
OneBill Telecom0.000.00
SITA Networks0.000.00
Spirent0.000.00
Spitfire Technology ​Group0.000.00
THUS0.000.00
Telecom Direct0.000.00
Vanco0.000.00
VarTec &​ TalkTalk Direct0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Arkadin
  • Eurotel
  • Invomo
  • NEG Telecom
  • Sense Internet
  • Telspec
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • A-Novo
  • Alpha Telecom
  • Alternative Networks
  • ANT Software
  • AQL
  • Avonline
  • AVST
  • Bango
  • Boltblue
  • Cellcast
  • Dynmark International
  • EDCommunications
  • Eircom
  • Elite Mobile
  • Eurolink Telecom
  • Genesys Conferencing
  • IDN Telecom
  • IDT Europe
  • Invomo
  • Jersey Telecom
  • Lebara
  • Mason Communications
  • Mediaburst
  • Netsize
  • National Grid Wireless
  • Nokia
  • SITA Networks
  • Spirent
  • Spitfire Technology Group
  • Telecom Direct
  • THUS
  • Vanco
  • VarTec & TalkTalk Direct
  • OneBill Telecom
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Dextra Solutions
  • European Telecom
  • Hi-Port Telecom
  • Kingston Communications
  • KN Network Services
  • Premier Communications
  • Refresh Mobile
  • Telsphere
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PDF testing

19.8% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
38.62%
file/url/badpath
None
30.73%
file/url/offtop
None
8.29%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.45%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.46%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
3.14%
file/html/notitle
None
1.94%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.79%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.51%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.26%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
33.53%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
33.50%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.46%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
6.44%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
5.70%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.35%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.34%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.71%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.83%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.56%