2008 Q3/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
17 Sep 2008
- Total URLs tested:
96,192
- Total tests run:
31,406,856
- Total number of PDF's:
5,556
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.44%
- Pages failing code standards:
76.36%
- Pages missing a title:
1.22%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
34.45%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
95.87%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 53,402 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | 100.00 | 92.06 |
| Marstons | 100.00 | 73.81 |
| Mecom Group | 100.00 | 50.00 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 33.86 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 30.95 |
| Wellstream Holdings | 100.00 | 30.40 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 21.43 |
| Charter | 100.00 | 20.63 |
| Heritage Oil | 100.00 | 11.43 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 7.89 |
| Misys | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 3.88 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 1.06 |
| Connaught | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Aggreko | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Aricom | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chloride Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Domino Printing Sciences | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Galiform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Law Debenture Corp | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose Resources | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Monks Investment Trust PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Mortgage Inv Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Talvivaara Mining Company | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Telecity Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 99.22 | 22.48 |
| Balfour Beatty | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| International Personal Finance | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Arriva | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Carillion | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Homeserve | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Senior | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Energy Corp | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Fenner | 99.07 | 0.00 |
| Baring Emerging Europe | 98.45 | 72.87 |
| WSP group | 98.45 | 0.78 |
| Mapeley | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 98.43 | 62.20 |
| Game Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Impax Environmental Markets | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Laird | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Shanks Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 98.32 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 97.66 | 46.09 |
| Amlin | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Venture Production | 97.60 | 21.60 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 97.44 | 0.00 |
| BH Macro | 97.18 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 96.83 | 8.73 |
| William Hill | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 96.23 | 1.89 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 96.09 | 14.84 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 96.00 | 4.00 |
| HMV Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| National Express Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Helical Bar | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 94.83 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 94.57 | 32.56 |
| Chemring Group | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 94.49 | 14.96 |
| Forth Ports | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Dynamic Opportunities | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 94.23 | 1.92 |
| Ashtead Group | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| UK Coal | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 92.00 | 1.60 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 91.51 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Logica | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Trust | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group | 89.92 | 1.55 |
| Edinburgh Dragon Trust | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Genus | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 81.40 | 24.03 |
| Easyjet | 81.40 | 1.55 |
| Travis Perkins | 81.08 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 78.91 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates And Development | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Salamander Energy | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst) | 76.00 | 6.40 |
| Micro Focus International | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| SEGRO | 73.23 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 73.02 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| moneysupermarket.com group | 67.46 | 0.00 |
| Interserve | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| Blackrock World Mining Trust | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoon | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| International Ferro Metals | 56.35 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 50.67 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 41.27 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 39.53 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 38.28 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 37.01 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 36.51 | 0.00 |
| Brixton | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 30.95 | 0.00 |
| Speedy Hire | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 29.13 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 22.83 | 0.00 |
| Dignity | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 18.60 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 15.08 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 12.70 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 11.72 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 8.59 | 0.00 |
| Grainger | 7.76 | 0.00 |
| ITE Group | 6.78 | 0.00 |
| Soco International | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Hardy Oil & Gas | 6.12 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 5.43 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Detica Group | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| PV Crystalox Solar | 3.33 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Wincanton | 3.06 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 2.38 | 2.38 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 2.33 | 1.55 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 1.98 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 1.80 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 1.79 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Domino's Pizza | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| De La Rue | 0.78 | 0.78 |
| Croda International | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Xchanging | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| 888 Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Advance Developing Markets | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Aegis Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mondi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sports Direct International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst
- Arriva
- Atkins (WS)
- Berkeley Group Holdings
- Catlin Group LD
- International Ferro Metals
- Melrose PLC
- Mondi
- Monks Investment Trust PLC
- PZ Cussons
- Randgold Resources
- St.Modwen Properties
- Taylor Wimpey
- VT Group
- Xchanging
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- 888 Holdings
- Aegis Group
- Autonomy Corporation
- Bellway
- Candover Investments
- Catlin Group LD
- Colt Telecom Group SA
- Smith (DS)
- Hays
- Henderson Group
- Hochschild Mining
- Hunting
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Informa
- Intertek Group
- Meggitt
- Mondi
- Morgan Crucible Co
- Premier Oil
- Advance Developing Markets
- Provident Financial
- RIT Capital Partners
- Spirent Communications
- Sports Direct International
- Temple Bar Investment Trust
- Weir Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- 3i Infrastructure
- Burberry Group
- Gem Diamonds
- Headlam Group
- British Assets Trust
- JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
- JPMorgan EUR Fledgeling investment trust
- Mercantile Investment TST (the)
- JPMorgan Indian Inv Trust
- JP Morgan
- JPMorgan Russian Secs
- Templeton Emerging Markets IT
PDF testing
22.5% 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/offtop None |
25.43% |
| file/url/badpath None |
18.40% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.52% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
6.13% |
| file/url/badquery None |
5.63% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.95% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
4.72% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.24% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.69% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.54% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.71% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.22% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.57% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.77% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
7.98% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.07% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
4.17% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.66% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.43% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.67% |