December 2007/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
13 Dec 2007
- Total URLs tested:
49,779
- Total tests run:
16,218,267
- Total number of PDF's:
1,542
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.01%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.33%
- Pages missing a title:
0.56%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.60%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.46%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,425 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) |
|---|---|---|
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| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 96.09 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 87.60 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 86.40 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 68.50 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 65.08 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 53.12 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 39.68 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 15.75 |
| Xstrata | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 7.94 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 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 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 99.21 | 53.97 |
| Aviva | 99.21 | 3.17 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 96.83 | 1.59 |
| Barclays | 96.80 | 10.40 |
| Anglo American | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 95.35 | 0.78 |
| British Energy Group | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 88.98 | 0.79 |
| Associated British Foods | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 84.92 | 4.76 |
| Next | 84.38 | 0.00 |
| BP | 83.46 | 0.79 |
| Diageo | 82.68 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 81.89 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 73.81 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 65.62 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 57.14 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| Cable & Wireless | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Land Securities Group
- Smiths Group
- Taylor Wimpey
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Barratt Developments
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
25.2% 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/offtop None |
24.46% |
| file/url/badpath None |
24.25% |
| file/url/badquery None |
23.62% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
6.81% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
4.65% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.18% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.34% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.94% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.93% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.19% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
26.43% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.21% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.72% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
13.86% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.69% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.18% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.80% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.12% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.99% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.30% |