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Significant News Sources July 2008

Failing A & AA 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

  • United Daily News
  • Daily Sport

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 75.77
Poorest code quality: The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 231,727 failures
Fastest overall average response time: ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)

PDF testing

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.

7.69% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 22.07%
file/url/badquery 19.95%
file/url/offtop 16.23%
file/url/badfragment 16.17%
url/fetch/notfound 7.95%
file/url/badscheme 4.33%
url/fetch/exception 2.24%
file/html/badmeta 1.93%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 1.46%
url/fetch/badcookie 1.32%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 37.13%
file/html/badentity 36.99%
file/html/tagnotallowed 7.51%
file/html/badattr 4.91%
file/html/badvalue 3.97%
file/html/closingunopened 2.65%
file/html/unknowntag 2.62%
file/html/missingclose 2.03%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.89%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.54%