June 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
25 Jun 2008
- Total URLs tested:
147,866
- Total tests run:
48,057,360
- Total number of PDF's:
35
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.39%
- Pages failing code standards:
95.62%
- Pages missing a title:
1.79%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
77.54%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.90%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 288,694 failures
- Fastest average response time:
ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ouest-France | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The People | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| FT | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.86 | 0.79 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 81.82 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 78.57 | 0.79 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 77.78 | 0.79 |
| New York Daily News | 77.34 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 64.84 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 55.04 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 40.48 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 40.00 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 30.47 | 0.78 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 29.69 | 1.56 |
| Sankei Sports | 23.62 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 20.63 | 0.00 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 16.54 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 16.54 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 16.41 | 0.78 |
| Reuters | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 14.17 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 12.60 | 0.79 |
| Apple Daily | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 9.09 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 6.40 | 0.80 |
| The Sun | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 4.21 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Mathrubhumi | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Trud | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 3.12 | 0.78 |
| China Times | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 2.34 | 0.78 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Nanfang Daily | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| Anandabazar Patrika | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Beijing Evening News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bloomberg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Express | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Star | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kronen Zeitung | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Metro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sandesh | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Shizuoka Shimbun | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Business | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Courier | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- ITN News
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Star
- Dong-a Ilbo
- Daily Express
- Independent
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- Khao Sod
- Metro
- Sandesh
- Shizuoka Shimbun
- The Business
- The Courier
- PA News Centre
- Evening Standard
- Yangtse Evening Post
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- United Daily News
- Daily Sport
PDF testing
5.71% 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 |
25.09% |
| file/url/badquery None |
18.83% |
| file/url/offtop None |
14.84% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
9.33% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.35% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
4.88% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.56% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.00% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.52% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.63% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.13% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.00% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.96% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.09% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.36% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.72% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.35% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.04% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.85% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.84% |