FTSE 100 September 2008

Error free sites

  • Land Securities Group
  • Petrofac
  • Smiths Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Man Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 18.88
Poorest code quality: Carphone Warehouse Group (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/) - 51,273 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/)

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.

27.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badpath 28.73%
file/url/offtop 15.90%
file/url/badquery 11.84%
url/fetch/notfound 8.14%
url/fetch/badcookie 7.81%
file/html/badmeta 6.61%
file/html/longmeta 4.74%
file/html/notitle 4.11%
url/fetch/timeout 2.46%
file/url/badfragment 1.69%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 32.32%
file/html/badentity 31.66%
file/html/badvalue 9.92%
file/html/tagnotallowed 9.10%
file/html/badattr 5.48%
file/html/unknowntag 3.81%
file/html/closingunopened 3.50%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.62%
file/html/missingclose 1.44%
url/fetch/moved 0.29%

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