September 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Sep 2008
- Total URLs tested:
50,174
- Total tests run:
16,345,004
- Total number of PDF's:
1,479
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.40%
- Pages failing code standards:
69.87%
- Pages missing a title:
2.02%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
18.88%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.21%
- Poorest code quality:
Carphone Warehouse Group (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/) - 51,273 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 85.71 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 63.28 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 63.28 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 62.70 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 50.40 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 36.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 29.60 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 19.69 |
| Barclays | 100.00 | 12.80 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 9.45 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 4.72 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 2.34 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 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 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.20 | 35.20 |
| British Airways | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 97.67 | 4.65 |
| FirstGroup | 97.60 | 10.40 |
| Vodafone Group | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 95.24 | 0.79 |
| 3I Group | 95.20 | 4.00 |
| Next | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.40 | 20.00 |
| Shire | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 91.47 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 91.20 | 34.40 |
| Standard Life | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| BP | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Ferrexpo | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 81.25 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 69.84 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 69.29 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 69.05 | 1.59 |
| Alliance Trust | 67.20 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| Johnson Matthey | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.57 | 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.
- Land Securities Group
- Petrofac
- 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
27.6% 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 |
28.73% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.90% |
| file/url/badquery None |
11.84% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.14% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
7.81% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
6.61% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.74% |
| file/html/notitle None |
4.11% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
2.46% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
1.69% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
32.32% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
31.66% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.92% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.10% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.48% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.81% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.50% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.62% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.44% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.29% |