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FTSE 100 August 2008

Error free sites

  • Cobham
  • Land Securities Group
  • Smiths Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Man Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 15 Aug 2008
Total URLs tested: 49,495
Total tests run: 16,126,383
Total number of PDF's: 1,558
URLs failing functional tests: 5.68
Pages failing code standards: 70.55
Pages missing a title: 2.09
Pages failing accessibility level A: 20.30
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 20.30
Poorest code quality: Vodafone Group (http://www.vodafone.com/) - 49,994 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Cable & Wireless (http://www.cw.com/)

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.

26.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 27.07%
file/url/offtop 23.12%
file/url/badquery 12.89%
url/fetch/notfound 8.01%
url/fetch/badcookie 6.52%
file/html/badmeta 5.82%
file/html/notitle 3.89%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.81%
file/html/longmeta 2.32%
url/fetch/exception 1.51%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 25.79%
file/html/unknowntag 25.21%
file/html/badentity 25.16%
file/html/tagnotallowed 7.21%
file/html/badvalue 4.77%
file/html/badattr 4.69%
file/html/closingunopened 3.21%
file/html/missingclose 1.37%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.93%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.83%