October 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
17 Oct 2008
- Total URLs tested:
48,580
- Total tests run:
15,831,504
- Total number of PDF's:
1,654
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.42%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.30%
- Pages missing a title:
3.38%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
21.47%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.51%
- Poorest code quality:
Shire (http://www.shire.com/) - 45,656 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 90.48 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 85.71 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 73.23 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 65.89 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 56.80 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 55.56 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 48.41 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 47.29 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 31.20 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 30.40 |
| FirstGroup | 100.00 | 30.16 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 7.94 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 6.35 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 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 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 99.21 | 30.16 |
| Centrica | 99.21 | 4.72 |
| Associated British Foods | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 99.20 | 9.60 |
| 3I Group | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| International Power | 99.20 | 2.40 |
| Standard Life | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 98.41 | 0.79 |
| Schroders | 97.66 | 0.78 |
| Hammerson | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 96.80 | 16.80 |
| G4S | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 94.53 | 0.78 |
| Petrofac | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 92.06 | 26.98 |
| Diageo | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Next | 90.40 | 1.60 |
| Cadbury | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 89.06 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 88.00 | 0.80 |
| Whitbread | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 85.94 | 2.34 |
| Cobham | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| BP | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 72.22 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 71.09 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 64.29 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 23.26 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 20.63 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| Johnson Matthey | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 7.09 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Fresnillo | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Drax Group
- Liberty International
- Scottish & Southern Energy
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Man Group
- Tesco
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
PDF testing
23.2% 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 |
18.57% |
| file/url/badpath None |
12.37% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
11.48% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
11.04% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
9.59% |
| file/url/badquery None |
9.05% |
| file/html/notitle None |
7.56% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
5.74% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.82% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.67% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.83% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
29.00% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.68% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.48% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.38% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.79% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.57% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.95% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.76% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.34% |