August 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Aug 2008
- Total URLs tested:
156,013
- Total tests run:
50,705,291
- Total number of PDF's:
41
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.88%
- Pages failing code standards:
94.46%
- Pages missing a title:
1.16%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
75.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.85%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 230,573 failures
- Fastest average response time:
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The People | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| FT | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 93.02 | 1.55 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.97 | 0.78 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 86.72 | 0.78 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 82.17 | 0.00 |
| China Times | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 78.91 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 62.70 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 59.52 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 59.06 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 57.81 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 42.52 | 0.79 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 40.94 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 37.21 | 0.78 |
| Hindustan Times | 30.95 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 29.37 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Sports | 27.78 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 23.62 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 20.63 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 18.60 | 0.78 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 17.32 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 16.54 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 14.96 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 13.49 | 0.79 |
| Apple Daily | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 8.80 | 4.80 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 6.20 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.21 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Trud | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 3.17 | 0.79 |
| CNN International | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 3.15 | 1.57 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 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 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 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 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 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 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- Al-Ahram
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Star
- WAZ Mediengruppe
- Dong-a Ilbo
- Daily Express
- Independent
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Metro
- Moskovskiy Komsomolets
- Nikkan Sports
- Sandesh
- Shizuoka Shimbun
- The Business
- The Courier
- PA News Centre
- Yangtse Evening Post
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- United Daily News
- Daily Sport
- Nanfang Daily
PDF testing
9.76% 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/badquery None |
32.30% |
| file/url/badpath None |
19.43% |
| file/url/offtop None |
13.45% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
12.27% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.05% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
4.65% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.32% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.94% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.85% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.00% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.02% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.87% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.76% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.25% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.38% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.64% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.34% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.68% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.72% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.52% |