August 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
91.88%
- Poorest code quality:
Vodafone Group (http://www.vodafone.com/) - 49,994 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Cable & Wireless (http://www.cw.com/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 99.22 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 70.31 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 58.27 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 55.12 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 45.67 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 26.40 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 24.00 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 8.73 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| BT Group | 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 | 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 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Associated British Foods | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 98.44 | 1.56 |
| Whitbread | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 98.43 | 29.13 |
| Smith & Nephew | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 98.40 | 13.60 |
| Vodafone Group | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 96.00 | 4.00 |
| BAE Systems | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 95.24 | 20.63 |
| AMEC | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 94.74 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.49 | 18.90 |
| Rio Tinto | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| BP | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 88.10 | 31.75 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Ferrexpo | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 80.95 | 0.79 |
| Next | 79.53 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 70.87 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 70.63 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 70.08 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 45.24 | 4.76 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cobham
- Land Securities Group
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Man Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
PDF testing
26.0% 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 |
27.07% |
| file/url/offtop None |
23.12% |
| file/url/badquery None |
12.89% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.01% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
6.52% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.82% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.89% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.81% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.32% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.51% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.79% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
25.21% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.16% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.21% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.77% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.69% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.21% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.37% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.93% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.83% |