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Significant News Sources January 2008

Failing A & AA on every page

  • ITN News
  • Bloomberg
  • Telegraph
  • PA News Centre

Excluded from index

  • No sites were excluded from this index

Index facts

Sites tested: 29 Jan 2008
Total URLs tested: 40,047
Total tests run: 13,015,483
Total number of PDF's: 8
URLs failing functional tests: 3.63
Pages failing code standards: 98.57
Pages missing a title: 1.79
Pages failing accessibility level A: 66.24
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 66.24
Poorest code quality: Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) - 54,943 failures
Fastest overall average response time: ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)

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.

0.00% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 36.83%
file/url/badquery 29.79%
url/fetch/notfound 15.93%
file/url/offtop 3.25%
file/html/badmeta 2.60%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.22%
file/html/notitle 1.88%
url/fetch/noaddr 1.76%
url/fetch/badcookie 1.45%
url/fetch/exception 1.23%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 39.20%
file/html/unknownentity 38.59%
file/html/tagnotallowed 7.60%
file/html/badattr 6.03%
file/html/badvalue 2.23%
file/html/closingunopened 1.56%
file/html/unknowntag 1.51%
file/html/missingclose 0.97%
url/fetch/moved 0.90%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.70%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford