March 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
12 Mar 2008
- Total URLs tested:
50,058
- Total tests run:
16,307,200
- Total number of PDF's:
1,475
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.55%
- Pages failing code standards:
73.12%
- Pages missing a title:
1.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
18.37%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.21%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,568 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/)
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 | 99.20 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.62 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 91.34 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 64.80 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 58.27 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 52.80 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 31.25 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 13.28 |
| Barclays | 100.00 | 9.60 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 9.38 |
| Resolution | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| HBOS | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 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 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Kingfisher | 99.21 | 76.38 |
| BAE Systems | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| BT Group | 97.60 | 68.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 96.03 | 8.73 |
| G4S | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Next | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 94.53 | 0.78 |
| Tui Travel | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.40 | 2.40 |
| AMEC | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 90.70 | 6.20 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 90.40 | 0.80 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| BP | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 80.16 | 42.86 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 75.40 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 59.38 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 29.69 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 23.44 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.48 | 1.64 |
| Cable & Wireless | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths Group
- Taylor Wimpey
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
18.8% 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 |
26.79% |
| file/url/offtop None |
26.26% |
| file/url/badquery None |
8.94% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
7.98% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.05% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.29% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.54% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.24% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.03% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.78% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
30.26% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
29.90% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
15.42% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.55% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.43% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.27% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.07% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.14% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.81% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.27% |