September 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Sep 2008
- Total URLs tested:
147,476
- Total tests run:
47,931,494
- Total number of PDF's:
69
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.04%
- Pages failing code standards:
94.35%
- Pages missing a title:
1.11%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
74.34%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.90%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 213,036 failures
- Fastest average response time:
ITN News (http://itn.co.uk/news/)
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 |
| The People | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| FT | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| China Times | 82.03 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 81.25 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 80.47 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 77.95 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 70.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 67.46 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 64.29 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 63.57 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 56.59 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 53.60 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 49.61 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 32.00 | 1.60 |
| The Sunday Post | 28.35 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 23.81 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 20.63 | 0.79 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 19.69 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Sports | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 13.39 | 0.79 |
| USA Today | 12.60 | 0.00 |
| Apple Daily | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 10.40 | 1.60 |
| New York Post | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Trud | 5.56 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.15 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 4.72 | 0.79 |
| CNN International | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 2.38 | 1.59 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 1.60 | 0.80 |
| Chicago Tribune | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 1.57 | 0.79 |
| Times Online | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Mathrubhumi | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 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 Sport | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Star | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kronen Zeitung | 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 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- Sankei Sports
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- ITN News
- Al-Ahram
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Sport
- Daily Star
- Dong-a Ilbo
- Daily Express
- Independent
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- 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.
- Nanfang Daily
PDF testing
13.0% 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 |
22.21% |
| file/url/offtop None |
20.93% |
| file/url/badpath None |
20.47% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
13.54% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.88% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
3.39% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.34% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.47% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.07% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.95% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.33% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
38.20% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.53% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.38% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.22% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.52% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.23% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.75% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.79% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.45% |