April 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Apr 2008
- Total URLs tested:
49,650
- Total tests run:
16,177,902
- Total number of PDF's:
1,602
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.62%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.02%
- Pages missing a title:
1.58%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.80%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.55%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 72,164 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 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 89.68 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 85.71 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 76.80 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 49.22 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 27.20 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 19.05 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 11.11 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| British Airways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 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 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.21 | 33.07 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Associated British Foods | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.20 | 24.80 |
| Resolution | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| Old Mutual | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 98.40 | 12.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 96.80 | 21.60 |
| Schroders | 96.12 | 0.78 |
| G4S | 95.24 | 0.79 |
| Legal & General Group | 95.24 | 0.79 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 95.20 | 13.60 |
| AMEC | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 90.62 | 6.25 |
| Standard Chartered | 90.48 | 7.14 |
| Rio Tinto | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 89.84 | 3.12 |
| Diageo | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| BP | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 81.75 | 7.14 |
| Bg Group | 81.60 | 3.20 |
| Next | 77.52 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 75.97 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 73.02 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 64.00 | 1.60 |
| Alliance Trust | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 51.52 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 50.00 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 27.56 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.48 | 1.64 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 0.80 | 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.
- Cobham
- Land Securities Group
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
21.1% 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 |
26.88% |
| file/url/offtop None |
24.41% |
| file/url/badquery None |
10.37% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.32% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.07% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.16% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
4.12% |
| file/html/notitle None |
2.84% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.44% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.29% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
27.36% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.80% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
18.05% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
13.05% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.26% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.30% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.56% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.91% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.71% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.22% |