March 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Mar 2008
- Total URLs tested:
40,942
- Total tests run:
13,306,306
- Total number of PDF's:
6
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.95%
- Pages failing code standards:
99.12%
- Pages missing a title:
1.39%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
73.33%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
100.00%
- Poorest code quality:
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) - 51,064 failures
- Fastest average response time:
ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Channel 4 News | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| FT | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Wall Street Journal | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Washington Post | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| New York Times | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| The Business | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Bloomberg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- ITN News
- Bloomberg
- PA News Centre
- Evening Standard
- Times Online
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
50.0% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badpath None |
52.82% |
| file/url/badquery None |
15.44% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
11.35% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
6.46% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.96% |
| file/url/offtop None |
2.26% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.10% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.73% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.01% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.98% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.30% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
40.26% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
6.50% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.35% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.88% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.79% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.21% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.74% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.70% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.63% |