November 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Nov 2008
- Total URLs tested:
155,566
- Total tests run:
50,560,094
- Total number of PDF's:
44
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.83%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.31%
- Pages missing a title:
1.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
74.37%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.71%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 211,649 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The People | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.86 | 0.79 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| FT | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 77.17 | 0.79 |
| China Times | 73.81 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 70.31 | 10.94 |
| Guardian | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 67.72 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 59.52 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 53.85 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 52.38 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 51.94 | 1.55 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 40.94 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 38.89 | 1.59 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 32.03 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 25.40 | 0.00 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 21.43 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 19.20 | 0.80 |
| USA Today | 18.25 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 16.54 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Sports | 15.75 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 14.96 | 1.57 |
| The Sunday Post | 12.60 | 0.00 |
| Apple Daily | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 6.30 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Trud | 5.51 | 0.79 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.21 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 4.69 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| The Hindu | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 3.15 | 0.79 |
| Daily News | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 1.55 | 0.78 |
| CNBC | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| ITN News | 0.80 | 6.40 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| 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 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kronen Zeitung | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mathrubhumi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Metro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sandesh | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Shizuoka Shimbun | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Business | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Courier | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Times Online | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Sankei Sports
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- Sky News
- Al-Ahram
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Sport
- Daily Star
- Daily Express
- Kom Chad Luek
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Matichon
- Metro
- Sandesh
- Shizuoka Shimbun
- The Business
- The Courier
- The Sun
- Times Online
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- WAZ Mediengruppe
- Nanfang Daily
PDF testing
6.82% 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 |
31.71% |
| file/url/offtop None |
19.29% |
| file/url/badpath None |
18.50% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
11.47% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.09% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
3.59% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.85% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.13% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.97% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.84% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.94% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.80% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.73% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.43% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.07% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.51% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.39% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.08% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.83% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.53% |