February 2008/FTSE 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    15 Feb 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    49,544

  • Total tests run:

    16,138,850

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,425

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.10%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    73.01%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.13%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    18.39%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    90.55%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 69,824 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Vedanta Resources (http://www.vedantaresources.com/)




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
Land Securities Grou​p100.00100.00
Smiths Group100.00100.00
Sage Group100.0097.60
British American Tob​acco100.0089.68
BT Group100.0079.37
Liberty Internationa​l100.0064.84
Yell Group100.0054.26
British Land Co100.0050.78
FirstGroup100.0042.52
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up100.0034.92
J Sainsbury100.0030.71
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.0029.92
Barclays100.0014.40
Centrica100.0010.94
Aviva100.006.20
Resolution100.004.80
Cadbury Schweppes100.000.00
Experian Group100.000.00
HBOS100.000.00
Hammerson100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
ICAP100.000.00
International Power100.000.00
Lloyds TSB Group100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Rentokil Initial100.000.00
Rexam100.000.00
Royal &​ Sun Alliance Insura​nce Group100.000.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group100.000.00
SABMiller100.000.00
Smith &​ Nephew100.000.00
Taylor Wimpey100.000.00
Tullow Oil100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
United Utilities100.000.00
Wpp Group100.000.00
Kingfisher99.2278.91
3I Group99.220.00
Bhp Billiton99.210.00
ITV99.210.00
Wolseley99.200.00
Capita Group98.450.00
Scottish &​ Newcastle98.450.00
Vodafone Group98.450.00
British Airways98.430.00
Xstrata98.417.14
BAE Systems98.410.00
Friends Provident98.400.00
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets98.400.00
Severn Trent98.400.00
British Energy Group​97.670.00
Prudential97.670.00
GlaxoSmithKline97.600.00
Royal Dutch Shell97.600.00
Whitbread97.600.00
Anglo American96.900.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy96.900.00
HSBC Holdings plc96.800.00
Rio Tinto96.030.00
G4S96.000.00
AMEC95.240.00
Legal &​ General Group95.202.40
Tui Travel94.570.00
Shire93.700.00
Thomas Cook Group93.700.00
Next92.860.00
National Grid91.470.00
Associated British F​oods91.270.00
Tesco90.624.69
Reckitt Benckiser Gr​oup88.801.60
Standard Life88.801.60
Schroders87.600.78
Marks &​ Spencer Group87.300.00
Alliance &​ Leicester86.400.00
Pearson86.400.00
Diageo82.680.00
Bg Group81.600.00
BP81.250.78
Standard Chartered72.660.00
Reed Elsevier60.470.00
Alliance Trust47.200.00
Cairn Energy34.380.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group26.400.00
Lonmin23.020.00
Admiral Group17.890.00
Vedanta Resources11.481.64
Rolls-Royce Group3.200.00
Reuters Group3.120.00
Cable &​ Wireless2.400.00
Persimmon2.400.00
Compass Group1.720.00
London Stock Exchang​e Group1.600.00
Carphone Warehouse G​roup1.590.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Johnson Matthey0.000.00
Kazakhmys0.000.00
Man Group0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Smith & Nephew
  • 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
  • Carnival
  • Kazakhmys
  • Man Group
  • Johnson Matthey
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
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PDF testing

22.0% 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/badpath
None
28.50%
file/url/offtop
None
26.09%
file/url/badquery
None
9.04%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
8.62%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
6.90%
file/html/badmeta
None
5.54%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
3.45%
file/html/longmeta
None
2.29%
file/html/notitle
None
2.11%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.69%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
29.97%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
29.56%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
18.05%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.81%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.78%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.23%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.90%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
2.03%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.61%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.24%