FTSE 100 April 2008

Error free sites

  • Cobham
  • Land Securities Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Man Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 19.80
Poorest code quality: Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 72,164 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.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.

21.1% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 26.88%
file/url/offtop 24.41%
file/url/badquery 10.37%
url/fetch/badcookie 8.32%
url/fetch/notfound 7.07%
file/html/badmeta 5.16%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 4.12%
file/html/notitle 2.84%
url/mail/badsmtp 2.44%
file/html/longmeta 2.29%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 27.36%
file/html/badentity 26.80%
file/html/tagnotallowed 18.05%
file/html/unknowntag 13.05%
file/html/badattr 4.26%
file/html/badvalue 3.30%
file/html/closingunopened 2.56%
file/html/missingclose 1.91%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.71%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.22%

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