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FTSE 250 Qtr 1 2008

Error free sites

  • Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst
  • Cobham
  • Electra Private Equity
  • Meggitt
  • St.Modwen Properties

Failing A & AA on every page

  • 888 Holdings
  • Bodycote International
  • Candover Investments
  • Carpetright
  • Smith (DS)
  • Hays
  • Henderson Group
  • Hochschild Mining
  • Intermediate Capital Group
  • Intertek Group
  • Meggitt
  • MITIE Group
  • Morgan Crucible Co
  • Premier Oil
  • Provident Financial
  • Quintain Estates And Development
  • Randgold Resources
  • Severfield-Rowen
  • Spirent Communications
  • Sports Direct International
  • Temple Bar Investment Trust
  • VT Group
  • Weir Group
  • Witan Investment Trust

Excluded from index

  • 3i Infrastructure
  • Burberry Group
  • Expro International Group
  • Headlam Group
  • British Assets Trust
  • JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
  • JP Morgan
  • Merchants Trust
  • Templeton Emerging Markets IT

Index facts

Sites tested: 25 Mar 2008
Total URLs tested: 94,346
Total tests run: 30,792,762
Total number of PDF's: 5,012
URLs failing functional tests: 7.11
Pages failing code standards: 75.92
Pages missing a title: 2.09
Pages failing accessibility level A: 34.53
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 34.53
Poorest code quality: Ultra Electronics Holdings (http://www.ultra-electronics.co.uk/) - 36,753 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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.

22.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 25.99%
file/url/badpath 17.19%
file/url/badquery 15.53%
url/fetch/notfound 7.23%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 5.47%
url/mail/exception 4.72%
file/html/notitle 4.39%
url/mail/badsmtp 4.26%
file/html/badmeta 2.99%
url/fetch/badcookie 2.60%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 23.31%
file/html/unknownentity 23.04%
file/html/badvalue 11.88%
file/html/badattr 11.25%
file/html/tagnotallowed 9.31%
file/html/unknowntag 9.11%
file/html/repeatedattr 4.79%
file/html/closingunopened 4.05%
file/html/missingclose 2.06%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.52%