December 2007/FTSE 100



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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 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
Daily Mail &​ General Trust100.00100.00
Land Securities Grou​p100.00100.00
Smiths Group100.0099.21
Sage Group100.0096.09
British American Tob​acco100.0087.60
BT Group100.0086.40
Kingfisher100.0068.50
British Land Co100.0065.08
Liberty Internationa​l100.0053.12
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up100.0039.68
J Sainsbury100.0015.75
Xstrata100.009.52
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.007.94
Centrica100.006.30
Resolution100.004.00
Imperial Chemical In​dustries100.002.36
International Power100.001.56
Mitchells &​ Butlers100.000.80
HBOS100.000.79
United Utilities100.000.79
3I Group100.000.00
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Capita Group100.000.00
DSG International100.000.00
Experian Group100.000.00
Friends Provident100.000.00
Hammerson100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
ICAP100.000.00
Lloyds TSB Group100.000.00
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Rentokil Initial100.000.00
Rexam100.000.00
Severn Trent100.000.00
Taylor Wimpey100.000.00
Tullow Oil100.000.00
Yell Group100.000.00
ITV99.220.00
Royal &​ Sun Alliance Insura​nce Group99.220.00
SABMiller99.220.00
Unilever99.220.00
Northern Rock99.2153.97
Aviva99.213.17
Bhp Billiton99.200.00
British Airways99.200.00
Scottish &​ Newcastle99.200.00
Royal Dutch Shell98.440.00
Wolseley97.670.00
Prudential97.660.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group97.640.00
HSBC Holdings plc97.620.00
GlaxoSmithKline97.600.00
Shire96.880.00
Rio Tinto96.850.00
Legal &​ General Group96.831.59
Barclays96.8010.40
Anglo American96.120.00
Schroders95.350.78
British Energy Group​95.280.00
Alliance &​ Leicester95.200.00
Smith &​ Nephew95.200.00
BAE Systems94.440.00
Standard Life94.400.00
Marks &​ Spencer Group93.650.00
Reckitt Benckiser Gr​oup91.200.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy90.700.00
National Grid89.150.00
Whitbread89.060.00
Standard Chartered88.980.79
Associated British F​oods88.980.00
Pearson86.400.00
Tesco84.924.76
Next84.380.00
BP83.460.79
Diageo82.680.00
Bg Group81.890.00
Vodafone Group73.810.00
Reed Elsevier65.620.00
Wpp Group57.140.00
Tate &​ Lyle40.000.00
Lonmin20.000.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group12.000.00
Vedanta Resources10.001.67
Cable &​ Wireless4.000.00
Johnson Matthey4.000.00
Persimmon4.000.00
Rolls-Royce Group3.200.00
Punch Taverns2.340.00
Compass Group1.750.00
Carphone Warehouse G​roup1.600.00
Reuters Group1.570.00
London Stock Exchang​e Group1.560.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
Barratt Developments​0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Kazakhmys0.000.00
Man Group0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • British American Tobacco
  • Land Securities Group
  • Smiths Group
  • Taylor Wimpey
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Astrazeneca
  • Barratt Developments
  • Carnival
  • Kazakhmys
  • Man Group
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
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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.

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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%
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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%