November 2008/FTSE 100



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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/)




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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)
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Organisation A AA
Land Securities Grou​p100.0099.22
Smiths Group100.0099.21
Sage Group100.0090.40
Wpp Group100.0081.75
British American Tob​acco100.0063.57
Kingfisher100.0059.52
British Land Co100.0059.20
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up100.0051.97
Liberty Internationa​l100.0049.60
Friends Provident100.0032.00
J Sainsbury100.0017.32
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.008.00
SABMiller100.007.87
International Power100.002.38
Aviva100.001.57
BT Group100.000.00
Bhp Billiton100.000.00
British Airways100.000.00
Centrica100.000.00
Drax Group100.000.00
Experian100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Rexam100.000.00
Severn Trent100.000.00
Stagecoach Group100.000.00
Standard Life100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
RSA Insurance Group99.220.78
ICAP99.220.00
Lloyds TSB Group99.220.00
Tullow Oil99.220.00
Wolseley99.2138.10
FirstGroup99.2122.22
HBOS99.210.00
Inmarsat99.210.00
Smith &​ Nephew99.210.00
Barclays99.2014.40
Capita Group98.450.00
BAE Systems98.410.00
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group98.400.00
Reed Elsevier97.660.00
Tui Travel97.660.00
Hammerson97.620.00
3I Group97.604.00
HSBC Holdings97.600.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy96.900.00
Reckitt Benckiser Gr​oup96.120.00
Petrofac96.060.00
Schroders96.030.79
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets96.030.00
Rio Tinto96.000.00
Vodafone Group95.240.79
Bunzl95.240.00
Legal &​ General Group94.4419.84
Whitbread93.700.00
Invensys93.650.00
Pearson93.600.00
Marks &​ Spencer Group92.910.00
G4S92.800.00
Cadbury92.250.00
Diageo92.190.00
Prudential92.000.80
Shire91.340.00
Anglo American90.700.00
Next90.401.60
Cobham89.760.00
Cable &​ Wireless89.680.00
GlaxoSmithKline88.000.00
Standard Chartered87.5016.41
National Grid86.050.00
Associated British F​oods84.500.00
Xstrata84.250.00
Royal Dutch Shell84.000.00
British Energy Group​82.540.00
Wood Group (John)79.200.00
Bg Group74.402.40
Kazakhmys65.600.00
Alliance Trust60.800.00
United Utilities Gro​up47.2958.14
Cairn Energy25.980.00
BP23.620.00
Thomson Reuters20.000.00
Lonmin19.050.00
Admiral Group17.890.00
Vedanta Resources11.291.61
Johnson Matthey9.600.00
London Stock Exchang​e Group9.600.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group9.380.00
Thomas Cook Group7.140.00
Eurasian Natural Res​ources Corporation3.170.00
AMEC3.150.00
Rolls-Royce Group2.380.00
Compass Group0.910.00
Fresnillo0.800.00
Autonomy Corporation​0.790.00
Man Group0.790.00
Astrazeneca0.000.00
Carnival0.000.00
Tesco0.000.00
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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
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Tesco
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
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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.

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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%
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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%