October 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
28 Oct 2008
- Total URLs tested:
195,859
- Total tests run:
63,656,905
- Total number of PDF's:
105
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.36%
- Pages failing code standards:
94.36%
- Pages missing a title:
1.11%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
73.99%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.91%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 222,333 failures
- Fastest average response time:
BBC News (http://news.bbc.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 |
|---|---|---|
| The People | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.25 | 0.78 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 88.19 | 1.57 |
| BBC News | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| FT | 87.30 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| China Times | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 67.72 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 62.99 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 58.33 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 57.36 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 51.16 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 37.30 | 1.59 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 35.43 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 30.23 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 21.43 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 20.80 | 0.80 |
| Sankei Sports | 19.53 | 0.00 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 15.87 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| Apple Daily | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 10.16 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 6.20 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.15 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 3.97 | 0.79 |
| The Washington Post | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 3.20 | 0.80 |
| Bild | 3.10 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 2.38 | 0.79 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 2.34 | 0.78 |
| Trud | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Daily Sport | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| 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 Star | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kronen Zeitung | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mathrubhumi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Metro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 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 Sun | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 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.
- Sankei Sports
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Star
- Daily Express
- Independent
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Metro
- News of the World
- Nikkan Sports
- Sandesh
- Shizuoka Shimbun
- The Business
- The Courier
- PA News Centre
- The Sun
- Times Online
- Yangtse Evening Post
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Nanfang Daily
PDF testing
1.90% 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 |
30.60% |
| file/url/badpath None |
21.21% |
| file/url/offtop None |
12.78% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
12.66% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.64% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
3.52% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.68% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.46% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.11% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.86% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.00% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.87% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.45% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.04% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.07% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.23% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.15% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.89% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.85% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.65% |