2008 Q1/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
96.81%
- Poorest code quality:
Ultra Electronics Holdings (http://www.ultra-electronics.co.uk/) - 36,753 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 88.80 |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | 100.00 | 81.25 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 100.00 | 79.53 |
| Marstons | 100.00 | 53.17 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 42.86 |
| Wellstream Holdings | 100.00 | 23.62 |
| Charter | 100.00 | 20.63 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 19.05 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 8.11 |
| Homeserve | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 1.06 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Aggreko | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Aricom | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Baillie Gifford : Monks / Scottish Inv Tr | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chloride Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Connaught | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gem Diamonds | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Talvivaara Mining Company | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Telecity Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Senior | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| International Personal Finance | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Dana Petroleum | 99.20 | 19.20 |
| Arm Holdings | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Energy Corp | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| eaga | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 98.78 | 35.37 |
| Venture Production | 98.45 | 23.26 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| WSP group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Game Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 98.41 | 0.79 |
| Amlin | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Fenner | 98.04 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 98.04 | 0.00 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 97.70 | 1.15 |
| SEGRO | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 97.50 | 0.00 |
| Carillion | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 96.85 | 7.87 |
| Murray Income Trust | 96.67 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 96.55 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 96.30 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 96.12 | 64.34 |
| New Star Asset Management Group | 96.06 | 1.57 |
| HMV Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 95.35 | 30.23 |
| Workspace Group | 95.24 | 12.70 |
| Bunzl | 94.87 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 94.29 | 1.90 |
| UK Coal | 94.00 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| LogicaCMG | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 92.80 | 0.80 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| William Hill | 92.45 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 92.44 | 0.00 |
| National Express Group | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 92.00 | 16.00 |
| Restaurant Group | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Galiform | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| Genus | 87.30 | 0.00 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Redrow | 86.82 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 86.05 | 0.78 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 86.05 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 85.98 | 0.00 |
| Ferrexpo | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 82.40 | 6.40 |
| Invensys | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst) | 80.16 | 7.14 |
| Close Brothers Group | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet | 78.57 | 0.79 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 78.12 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 72.22 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group | 69.29 | 0.79 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 65.38 | 0.00 |
| moneysupermarket.com group | 64.57 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 64.29 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Collins Stewart | 62.90 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Interserve | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls | 57.48 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 54.17 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 51.18 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 48.00 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 45.24 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 42.06 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| De La Rue | 38.89 | 0.79 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 37.98 | 0.00 |
| International Ferro Metals | 36.51 | 0.00 |
| Dignity | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Speedy Hire | 35.20 | 0.00 |
| Brixton | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 27.91 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Helphire Group | 26.09 | 0.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Galliford Try | 20.47 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Law Debenture Corp | 17.46 | 0.00 |
| Real Estate Opportunities | 16.05 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 14.73 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 14.06 | 0.00 |
| ITE Group | 11.67 | 0.00 |
| Soco International | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 10.13 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Foseco | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.71 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 4.55 | 0.00 |
| PV Crystalox Solar | 4.44 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.70 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 2.94 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| Grainger | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Xchanging | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Aegis Group | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.32 | 0.00 |
| Wincanton | 1.19 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch World Mining TST | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 0.79 | 0.79 |
| Catlin Group LD | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Mondi | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| 888 Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates And Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Severfield-Rowen | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sports Direct International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst
- Cobham
- Electra Private Equity
- Meggitt
- St.Modwen Properties
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests 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
The following sites were excluded from the 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
PDF testing
22.6% 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/offtop None |
25.99% |
| file/url/badpath None |
17.19% |
| file/url/badquery None |
15.53% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.23% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
5.47% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
4.72% |
| file/html/notitle None |
4.39% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
4.26% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.99% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
2.60% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
23.31% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
23.04% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
11.88% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
11.25% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.31% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
9.11% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
4.79% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.05% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.06% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.52% |