November 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
18 Nov 2008
- Total URLs tested:
48,724
- Total tests run:
15,879,630
- Total number of PDF's:
1,705
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.28%
- Pages failing code standards:
69.22%
- Pages missing a title:
2.86%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
22.40%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.79%
- Poorest code quality:
Shire (http://www.shire.com/) - 51,239 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Barclays (http://www.barclays.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 | 99.22 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Wpp Group | 100.00 | 81.75 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 63.57 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 59.52 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 51.97 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 49.60 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 32.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 17.32 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| ICAP | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.21 | 38.10 |
| FirstGroup | 99.21 | 22.22 |
| HBOS | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 99.20 | 14.40 |
| Capita Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 97.60 | 4.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.03 | 0.79 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 95.24 | 0.79 |
| Bunzl | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 94.44 | 19.84 |
| Whitbread | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Shire | 91.34 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Next | 90.40 | 1.60 |
| Cobham | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 87.50 | 16.41 |
| National Grid | 86.05 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 84.50 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 74.40 | 2.40 |
| Kazakhmys | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 60.80 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 47.29 | 58.14 |
| Cairn Energy | 25.98 | 0.00 |
| BP | 23.62 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| Johnson Matthey | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 9.38 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Fresnillo | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- 3I Group
- Bunzl
- Drax Group
- Land Securities Group
- Liberty International
- Smiths Group
- United Utilities Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Tesco
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
PDF testing
25.8% 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 |
15.68% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
12.90% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
12.21% |
| file/url/badpath None |
11.68% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
10.39% |
| file/url/badquery None |
10.07% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
6.21% |
| file/html/notitle None |
6.19% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.44% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.35% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
28.14% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
27.28% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.23% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.54% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.78% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.99% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.29% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.50% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.27% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.45% |