June 2008/FTSE 100
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
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 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 72.87 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 69.29 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 61.90 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 52.38 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 51.97 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 41.27 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 39.20 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 12.70 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| Vodafone Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 3I Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 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 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Bhp Billiton | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 98.40 | 9.60 |
| Prudential | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Next | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.88 | 0.78 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 96.85 | 2.36 |
| Associated British Foods | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 96.00 | 14.40 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 94.59 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.40 | 18.40 |
| Tui Travel | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 93.60 | 0.80 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| BP | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 86.40 | 12.80 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 70.63 | 1.59 |
| Tate & Lyle | 62.99 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 51.20 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 45.60 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 29.69 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 21.88 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.48 | 1.64 |
| Johnson Matthey | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 6.35 | 0.79 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.78 | 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
- International Power
- 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
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.
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% |
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% |