May 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 May 2008
- Total URLs tested:
49,043
- Total tests run:
15,976,155
- Total number of PDF's:
1,430
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.10%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.83%
- Pages missing a title:
1.84%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
22.07%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
92.09%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,169 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Vedanta Resources (http://www.vedantaresources.com/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 98.40 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 71.65 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 69.53 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 65.87 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 42.06 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 26.40 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 26.36 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 24.60 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 15.87 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 8.80 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| FirstGroup | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 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 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 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 |
| Wolseley | 99.21 | 34.13 |
| HBOS | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 99.20 | 30.40 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Next | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 98.40 | 9.60 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 97.67 | 0.78 |
| Whitbread | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 96.90 | 1.55 |
| Anglo American | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 96.03 | 21.43 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 95.28 | 1.57 |
| British Energy Group | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 94.59 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 93.80 | 0.78 |
| Cadbury | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 89.60 | 1.60 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| BP | 75.59 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 36.22 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 23.81 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 18.25 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 11.81 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.48 | 1.64 |
| Bg Group | 7.81 | 0.78 |
| Tesco | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 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.
- Experian Group
- Land Securities Group
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths 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
19.6% 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/badpath None |
30.99% |
| file/url/offtop None |
22.14% |
| file/url/badquery None |
9.78% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.10% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.66% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.22% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.44% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.21% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.17% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.88% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
26.12% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.38% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
19.29% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
9.92% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.27% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.82% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.11% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.94% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.19% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
0.18% |