January 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Jan 2008
- Total URLs tested:
49,357
- Total tests run:
16,074,461
- Total number of PDF's:
1,286
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.14%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.74%
- Pages missing a title:
1.04%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
17.98%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.42%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 70,542 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Bg Group (http://www.bg-group.com/)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 96.03 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 95.28 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 84.13 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 70.87 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 58.91 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 55.47 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 54.33 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 49.21 |
| FirstGroup | 100.00 | 47.20 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 30.40 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 29.13 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 10.24 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 6.25 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 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 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 98.40 | 7.20 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 97.64 | 9.45 |
| BAE Systems | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.09 | 0.78 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.49 | 2.36 |
| Kelda Group | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 90.55 | 6.30 |
| Whitbread | 89.92 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| BP | 85.94 | 2.34 |
| Associated British Foods | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Next | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 82.03 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 76.74 | 1.55 |
| Reed Elsevier | 46.51 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 26.40 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 22.05 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 10.00 | 1.67 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 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.
- Land Securities Group
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Kazakhmys
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
21.7% 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/badpath None |
26.50% |
| file/url/offtop None |
23.93% |
| file/url/badquery None |
15.55% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.08% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
6.45% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.97% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.46% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.46% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.92% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.83% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
30.66% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
30.33% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
17.71% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.99% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.55% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.09% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.66% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.05% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.05% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.12% |