June 2008/FTSE 100



Expand / contract icon

INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    18 Jun 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    49,356

  • Total tests run:

    16,082,898

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,623

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.02%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    71.11%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.97%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    22.11%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    91.91%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 68,004 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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 Grou​p100.00100.00
Smiths Group100.00100.00
Sage Group100.0099.20
British American Tob​acco100.0072.87
Kingfisher100.0069.29
British Land Co100.0061.90
Wolseley100.0052.38
Liberty Internationa​l100.0051.97
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up100.0041.27
Friends Provident100.0039.20
BT Group100.0012.70
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.009.52
Wpp Group100.001.57
International Power100.001.56
Vodafone Group100.000.79
Rexam100.000.78
3I Group100.000.00
Aviva100.000.00
British Airways100.000.00
Capita Group100.000.00
Centrica100.000.00
Cobham100.000.00
Experian Group100.000.00
HBOS100.000.00
Hammerson100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
ICAP100.000.00
Lloyds TSB Group100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group100.000.00
SABMiller100.000.00
Severn Trent100.000.00
Smith &​ Nephew100.000.00
Tullow Oil100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
United Utilities100.000.00
RSA Insurance Group99.220.78
Bhp Billiton99.210.00
ITV99.210.00
FirstGroup99.200.80
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets98.410.00
Barclays98.409.60
Prudential97.670.00
Next97.620.00
HSBC Holdings97.600.00
Schroders96.880.78
Anglo American96.880.00
Reed Elsevier96.880.00
Xstrata96.852.36
Associated British F​oods96.800.00
J Sainsbury96.0014.40
Thomas Cook Group95.240.00
G4S95.200.00
Bunzl94.590.00
Cadbury94.570.00
Legal &​ General Group94.4018.40
Tui Travel94.400.00
National Grid93.800.00
Shire93.800.00
Standard Chartered93.600.80
Scottish &​ Southern Energy92.250.00
British Energy Group​92.130.00
Standard Life92.000.80
Marks &​ Spencer Group92.000.00
Diageo91.200.00
AMEC89.600.00
Pearson89.600.00
Rio Tinto89.600.00
BAE Systems88.890.00
BP88.100.00
Whitbread88.100.00
Alliance &​ Leicester86.4012.80
Royal Dutch Shell85.040.00
GlaxoSmithKline72.800.00
Wood Group (John)72.000.00
Reckitt Benckiser Gr​oup70.631.59
Tate &​ Lyle62.990.00
Kazakhmys51.200.00
Alliance Trust45.600.00
Cairn Energy29.690.00
Lonmin21.880.00
Admiral Group17.890.00
Vedanta Resources11.481.64
Johnson Matthey9.520.00
Bg Group6.350.79
London Stock Exchang​e Group4.000.00
Persimmon4.000.00
Rolls-Royce Group3.200.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group3.170.00
Thomson Reuters3.170.00
Eurasian Natural Res​ources Corporation2.400.00
Cable &​ Wireless1.600.00
Compass Group0.940.00
Carphone Warehouse G​roup0.800.00
Tesco0.780.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Man Group0.000.00
Expand / contract icon

Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Cobham
  • International Power
  • Land Securities Group
  • Smith & Nephew
  • Smiths Group
Expand / contract icon

Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Man Group
Expand / contract icon

Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
Expand / contract icon

PDF testing

20.3% 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.

Expand / contract icon

Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badpath
None
31.30%
file/url/offtop
None
19.32%
file/url/badquery
None
10.21%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.96%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
8.70%
file/html/badmeta
None
5.30%
file/html/notitle
None
3.63%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
2.34%
file/html/longmeta
None
2.28%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.50%
Expand / contract icon

Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
30.01%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
29.43%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
14.31%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.09%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.25%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.18%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.43%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.12%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.92%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.42%