July 2008/Significant News Sources
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/)
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 |
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The People | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| FT | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.13 | 0.79 |
| The Mirror | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 82.40 | 1.60 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 81.82 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 77.17 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 75.59 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 63.57 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 61.72 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 60.32 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 57.94 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 57.14 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 55.47 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 46.46 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 45.67 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 37.01 | 0.79 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 31.78 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 31.25 | 0.78 |
| Sankei Sports | 29.37 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 25.00 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 17.46 | 0.79 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 17.19 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 16.00 | 12.80 |
| The Sunday Post | 14.84 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 13.39 | 14.96 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 13.39 | 0.79 |
| Apple Daily | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 9.60 | 8.80 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 9.38 | 3.12 |
| The Washington Post | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 5.56 | 0.79 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 4.21 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Trud | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| China Times | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Nanfang Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 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 |
| ITN News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kronen Zeitung | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mathrubhumi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Metro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 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 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- United Daily News
- Daily Sport
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.
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% |
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% |