2008 Q3/FTSE 250



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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 Expand / contract icon

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 Trust100.00100.00
St.Modwen Properties​100.00100.00
Hargreaves Lansdown100.0092.06
Marstons100.0073.81
Mecom Group100.0050.00
Rightmove100.0033.86
Enodis100.0030.95
Wellstream Holdings100.0030.40
Dana Petroleum100.0021.43
Charter100.0020.63
Heritage Oil100.0011.43
Electra Private Equi​ty100.007.89
Misys100.004.80
Serco Group100.003.88
Ashmore Group100.001.06
Connaught100.000.80
Bovis Homes Group100.000.79
Michael Page Interna​tional100.000.79
Aggreko100.000.00
Aricom100.000.00
Arm Holdings100.000.00
Bluebay Asset Manage​ment100.000.00
Carpetright100.000.00
Chloride Group100.000.00
DSG International100.000.00
Davis Service Group100.000.00
Domino Printing Scie​nces100.000.00
Electrocomponents100.000.00
Galiform100.000.00
Great Portland Estat​es100.000.00
Greggs100.000.00
Hikma Pharmaceutical​s100.000.00
Inchcape100.000.00
Kier Group100.000.00
Ladbrokes100.000.00
Law Debenture Corp100.000.00
Melrose PLC100.000.00
Melrose Resources100.000.00
Millennium &​ Copthorne Hotels100.000.00
Monks Investment Tru​st PLC100.000.00
Mouchel Group100.000.00
Perpetual Income &​ Growth Inv Tst100.000.00
Premier Farnell100.000.00
Rentokil Initial100.000.00
SSL International100.000.00
SVG Capital100.000.00
Scottish Mortgage In​v Tst100.000.00
Southern Cross Healt​hcare100.000.00
Talvivaara Mining Co​mpany100.000.00
Taylor Wimpey100.000.00
Telecity Group100.000.00
Ultra Electronics Ho​ldings100.000.00
Unite Group100.000.00
United Business Medi​a100.000.00
BSS Group99.2222.48
Balfour Beatty99.220.00
International Person​al Finance99.220.00
Tomkins99.220.00
Arriva99.210.00
Carillion99.210.00
Halfords Group99.210.00
Homeserve99.210.00
Johnston Press99.210.00
Rathbone Brothers99.210.00
Renishaw99.210.00
Senior99.210.00
Dairy Crest Group99.200.00
GKN99.200.00
Imperial Energy Corp​99.200.00
Fenner99.070.00
Baring Emerging Euro​pe98.4572.87
WSP group98.450.78
Mapeley98.440.00
Northern Foods98.4362.20
Game Group98.430.00
Impax Environmental ​Markets98.430.00
Partygaming98.430.00
Atkins (WS)98.410.00
Laird98.410.00
Britvic98.400.80
Mitchells &​ Butlers98.400.80
Shanks Group98.400.00
Rank Group98.320.00
Rotork97.670.00
Yell Group97.6646.09
Amlin97.620.00
Venture Production97.6021.60
Caledonia Investment​s97.600.00
British Empire Secur​ities97.440.00
BH Macro97.180.00
Inmarsat96.900.00
Stagecoach Group96.880.00
Home Retail Group96.850.00
Halma96.838.73
William Hill96.800.00
TR Property Investme​nt Trust96.231.89
Euromoney Institutio​nal Investors96.120.00
Workspace Group96.0914.84
Alliance &​ Leicester96.004.00
HMV Group96.000.00
National Express Gro​up96.000.00
Helical Bar95.200.00
IG Group Holdings95.200.00
Merchants Trust94.830.00
Berkeley Group Holdi​ngs94.5732.56
Chemring Group94.570.00
Pennon Group94.530.00
BBA Aviation94.4914.96
Forth Ports94.440.00
Goldman Sachs Dynami​c Opportunities94.400.00
WH Smith94.231.92
Ashtead Group93.700.00
Bradford &​ Bingley93.700.00
UK Coal92.860.00
SIG92.800.00
RPS Group92.001.60
Spirax-Sarco Enginee​ring91.510.00
Spectris91.410.00
Aberdeen Asset Manag​ement91.340.00
Foreign &​ Col 91.200.00
Derwent London90.550.00
Logica90.550.00
Murray Income Trust90.400.00
MITIE Group89.921.55
Edinburgh Dragon Tru​st89.760.00
Debenhams89.600.00
Murray International​ Trust89.150.00
Genus88.280.00
Bankers Investment T​rust87.600.00
Cattles87.600.00
Northgate87.200.00
JKX Oil &​ Gas84.800.00
Investec84.130.00
Brit Insurance Holdi​ngs82.400.00
PZ Cussons81.4024.03
Easyjet81.401.55
Travis Perkins81.080.00
Scottish Investment ​Trust78.910.00
Quintain Estates And​ Development78.400.00
Close Brothers Group​77.600.00
Salamander Energy77.600.00
Fidelity (Edinburgh ​Inv Tst)76.006.40
Micro Focus Internat​ional73.600.00
SEGRO73.230.00
Northumbrian Water G​roup73.020.00
Taylor Nelson Sofres​68.800.00
moneysupermarket.com​ group67.460.00
Interserve61.600.00
Blackrock World Mini​ng Trust59.200.00
JD Wetherspoon 59.200.00
International Ferro ​Metals56.350.00
Aveva Group54.400.00
Tullett Prebon50.670.00
CSR41.270.00
Barratt Developments​39.530.00
Trinity Mirror38.280.00
Jardine Lloyd Thomps​on Group37.010.00
St James's Place36.510.00
Brixton34.400.00
Tate &​ Lyle34.400.00
Cookson Group31.200.00
Shaftesbury30.950.00
Speedy Hire30.400.00
Babcock Internationa​l Group29.130.00
Morgan Sindall25.600.00
Premier Foods22.830.00
Dignity21.600.00
Mothercare18.600.00
Qinetiq Group16.000.00
Aberforth Smaller Co​mpanies Tst15.380.00
Keller15.080.00
Beazley Group12.700.00
Big Yellow Group12.000.00
Kesa Electricals11.720.00
City of London Inves​tment Trust11.110.00
Savills8.590.00
Grainger7.760.00
ITE Group6.780.00
Soco International6.400.00
Hardy Oil &​ Gas6.120.00
Witan Investment Tru​st5.470.00
Regus Group5.430.00
Aquarius Platinum4.760.00
Dexion Absolute4.350.00
Detica Group4.000.00
Persimmon4.000.00
Hiscox3.910.00
Punch Taverns3.910.00
PV Crystalox Solar3.330.00
Paypoint3.200.00
Randgold Resources3.150.00
Wincanton3.060.00
Daejan Holdings2.560.00
Go-Ahead Group2.382.38
Dimension Data Holdi​ngs2.360.00
VT Group2.331.55
Brown (N.) Group1.980.00
Filtrona1.800.00
Greene King1.790.00
Victrex1.570.00
Bodycote0.800.00
Domino's Pizza0.800.00
IMI0.800.00
De La Rue0.780.78
Croda International0.780.00
Xchanging0.780.00
Benfield Group0.000.78
888 Holdings0.000.00
Advance Developing M​arkets0.000.00
Aegis Group0.000.00
Autonomy Corporation​0.000.00
Bellway0.000.00
Candover Investments​0.000.00
Catlin Group LD0.000.00
Colt Telecom Group S​A0.000.00
Hays0.000.00
Henderson Group0.000.00
Hochschild Mining0.000.00
Hunting0.000.00
Informa0.000.00
Intermediate Capital​ Group0.000.00
Intertek Group0.000.00
Meggitt0.000.00
Mondi0.000.00
Morgan Crucible Co0.000.00
Premier Oil0.000.00
Provident Financial0.000.00
RIT Capital Partners​0.000.00
Smith (DS)0.000.00
Spirent Communicatio​ns0.000.00
Sports Direct Intern​ational0.000.00
Temple Bar Investmen​t Trust0.000.00
Weir Group0.000.00
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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%
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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%