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FTSE 250 Qtr 4 2007

Error free sites

  • Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst
  • Aegis Group
  • Atkins (WS)
  • Baillie Gifford : Monks / Scottish Inv Tr
  • Cobham
  • Dana Petroleum
  • Electra Private Equity
  • Hargreaves Lansdown
  • Invista Foundation Property Trust
  • Sports Direct International

Failing A & AA on every page

  • AGA Foodservice Group
  • Merrill Lynch World Mining TST
  • Bodycote International
  • Candover Investments
  • Catlin Group LD
  • Smith (DS)
  • Ferrexpo
  • Greene King
  • Hays
  • Henderson Group
  • Hochschild Mining
  • Intermediate Capital Group
  • Intertek Group
  • Meggitt
  • MITIE Group
  • Morgan Crucible Co
  • Murray Income Trust
  • Murray International Trust
  • Premier Oil
  • Provident Financial
  • Quintain Estates And Development
  • Randgold Resources
  • Savills
  • Severfield-Rowen
  • SIG
  • Spirent Communications
  • Temple Bar Investment Trust
  • VT Group
  • Weir Group
  • Witan Investment Trust

Excluded from index

  • 3i Infrastructure
  • Burberry Group
  • Expro International Group
  • Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst)
  • Headlam Group
  • British Assets Trust
  • JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
  • JP Morgan
  • Templeton Emerging Markets IT

Index facts

Sites tested: 14 Dec 2007
Total URLs tested: 93,062
Total tests run: 30,369,742
Total number of PDF's: 4,792
URLs failing functional tests: 6.78
Pages failing code standards: 76.64
Pages missing a title: 2.50
Pages failing accessibility level A: 36.28
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 36.28
Poorest code quality: Ultra Electronics Holdings (http://www.ultra-electronics.co.uk/) - 35,222 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.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.

18.5% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 21.42%
file/url/badpath 19.35%
file/url/badquery 15.28%
url/fetch/notfound 8.54%
url/mail/exception 6.11%
file/html/notitle 5.42%
url/mail/badsmtp 3.57%
file/html/badmeta 3.25%
url/fetch/badcookie 3.06%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.94%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 22.27%
file/html/unknownentity 21.86%
file/html/badvalue 13.19%
file/html/unknowntag 10.71%
file/html/tagnotallowed 10.41%
file/html/badattr 9.42%
file/html/repeatedattr 4.79%
file/html/closingunopened 4.02%
file/html/missingclose 2.10%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.50%