July 2008/Significant News Sources



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    28 Jul 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    153,628

  • Total tests run:

    49,929,776

  • Total number of PDF's:

    26

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.89%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    94.07%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.71%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    75.77%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.51%

  • Poorest code quality:

    The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 231,727 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)




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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)
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Organisation A AA
Ouest-France100.000.00
icWales100.000.00
The People99.220.00
Scotland on Sunday98.450.00
Channel 4 News96.900.00
BBC News96.800.00
Scotsman95.240.00
FT94.400.00
Chunichi Shimbun92.130.79
The Mirror89.680.00
Mainichi Shimbun83.330.00
Asahi Shimbun82.401.60
JoongAng Ilbo81.820.00
Guardian80.800.00
Nihon Keizai Shimbun​77.170.00
New York Daily News75.590.00
Telegraph66.400.00
Yomiuri Shimbun63.570.00
Evening Standard61.720.00
La Repubblica60.320.00
Five News57.940.00
The Wall Street Jour​nal57.140.00
The Press and Journa​l55.470.00
Sankei Shimbun46.460.00
Daily Mail45.670.00
Mail On Sunday37.010.79
The Nikkan Gendai31.780.00
Hochi Shimbun31.250.78
Sankei Sports29.370.00
Observer28.570.00
The Chosun Ilbo25.000.00
Reuters24.000.00
The Sun19.200.00
Chugoku Shimbun17.460.79
Kyoto Shimbun17.190.00
Matichon16.0012.80
The Sunday Post14.840.00
De Telegraaf13.3914.96
Kobe Shimbun13.390.79
Apple Daily12.000.00
Hindustan Times10.320.00
USA Today10.320.00
Khao Sod9.608.80
Rajasthan Patrika9.383.12
The Washington Post8.800.00
New York Post7.200.00
The Herald7.200.00
Jang7.140.00
The Hindu6.400.00
Bild6.350.00
Dainik Jagran5.560.79
Nishinippon Shimbun5.470.00
Times Online4.760.00
Malayala Manorama4.650.00
Tokyo Sports4.210.00
People’s Daily4.000.80
Trud3.970.00
Moskovskiy Komsomole​ts3.200.00
Los Angeles Times3.170.00
China Times3.120.00
CNN International2.400.00
Chicago Tribune2.400.00
Nanfang Daily2.400.00
The New York Times2.380.00
Corriere della Sera2.360.00
Daily Thanthi2.360.00
Dainik Bhaskar2.360.00
Guangzhou Daily2.360.00
Eenadu1.600.00
News of the World1.600.00
Sky News1.590.00
CNBC1.560.00
Daily News0.800.00
Yangtse Evening Post​0.800.00
Dong-a Ilbo0.790.00
Gujarat Samachar0.790.00
Sunday Herald0.790.00
Thai Rath0.780.00
The Times of India0.780.00
WAZ Mediengruppe0.780.00
Kom Chad Luek0.000.79
Al-Ahram0.000.00
Anandabazar Patrika0.000.00
Beijing Evening News​0.000.00
Bloomberg0.000.00
Daily Express0.000.00
Daily Star0.000.00
ITN News0.000.00
Independent0.000.00
Komsomolskaya Pravda​0.000.00
Kronen Zeitung0.000.00
Mathrubhumi0.000.00
Metro0.000.00
Nikkan Sports0.000.00
PA News Centre0.000.00
Sandesh0.000.00
Shizuoka Shimbun0.000.00
The Business0.000.00
The Courier0.000.00
Xinmin Evening News ​(Shanghai)0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • ITN News
  • Al-Ahram
  • Anandabazar Patrika
  • Beijing Evening News
  • Bloomberg
  • Daily Star
  • Daily Express
  • Independent
  • Komsomolskaya Pravda
  • Kronen Zeitung
  • Mathrubhumi
  • Metro
  • Nikkan Sports
  • Sandesh
  • Shizuoka Shimbun
  • The Business
  • The Courier
  • PA News Centre
  • Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • United Daily News
  • Daily Sport
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PDF testing

7.69% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badpath
None
22.07%
file/url/badquery
None
19.95%
file/url/offtop
None
16.23%
file/url/badfragment
None
16.17%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
7.95%
file/url/badscheme
None
4.33%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
2.24%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.93%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.46%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.32%
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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
36.99%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.51%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.91%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
3.97%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.65%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.62%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.03%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.89%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.54%