July 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Jul 2008
- Total URLs tested:
48,209
- Total tests run:
15,710,461
- Total number of PDF's:
1,636
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.26%
- Pages failing code standards:
69.18%
- Pages missing a title:
2.02%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
19.55%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.97%
- Poorest code quality:
Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 67,173 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 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 71.43 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 70.54 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 49.60 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 43.20 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 35.20 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 32.80 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 32.00 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 27.20 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 9.60 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 8.73 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.55 |
| 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 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| ICAP | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 99.21 | 15.87 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Associated British Foods | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 98.44 | 0.78 |
| FirstGroup | 98.40 | 24.00 |
| Barclays | 98.40 | 8.00 |
| HBOS | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Next | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.88 | 0.78 |
| Anglo American | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 94.74 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.40 | 20.80 |
| National Grid | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 89.68 | 2.38 |
| Pearson | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 87.50 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 85.60 | 1.60 |
| Ferrexpo | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| BP | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 81.75 | 0.79 |
| Wood Group (John) | 71.43 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 30.71 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| Johnson Matthey | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 4.00 | 2.40 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 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
- National Grid
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
22.1% 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 |
29.87% |
| file/url/offtop None |
20.94% |
| file/url/badquery None |
11.79% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.15% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.12% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.06% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.71% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.48% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.15% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.66% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.78% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.12% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.34% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.50% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.37% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.76% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.14% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.77% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.13% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.26% |