December 2008/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
12 Dec 2008
- Total URLs tested:
50,256
- Total tests run:
16,371,784
- Total number of PDF's:
1,484
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.44%
- Pages failing code standards:
69.49%
- Pages missing a title:
1.85%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
22.30%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.12%
- Poorest code quality:
Shire (http://www.shire.com/) - 52,093 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 | 99.21 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 88.10 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 70.08 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 66.67 |
| Wpp | 100.00 | 62.20 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 62.02 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 48.80 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 25.60 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 24.22 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 18.90 |
| Barclays | 100.00 | 11.20 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 10.32 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 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 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 99.22 | 2.34 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| J Sainsbury | 99.20 | 24.00 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 98.45 | 0.78 |
| Capita Group | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 98.43 | 15.75 |
| ICAP | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 98.40 | 4.00 |
| Shire | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HBOS | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 96.85 | 0.79 |
| HSBC Holdings | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 96.03 | 0.79 |
| Vodafone Group | 95.28 | 0.79 |
| Rio Tinto | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 95.20 | 18.40 |
| Bunzl | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 94.44 | 0.79 |
| G4S | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 90.62 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 88.19 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 85.94 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 85.04 | 25.20 |
| Associated British Foods | 84.00 | 0.80 |
| United Utilities Group | 81.89 | 74.80 |
| National Grid | 81.40 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 79.53 | 1.57 |
| Wood Group (John) | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 68.25 | 0.79 |
| Alliance Trust | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 60.63 | 0.00 |
| BP | 30.71 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 29.92 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.89 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 17.46 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 15.08 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 11.29 | 1.61 |
| AMEC | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Fresnillo | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Land Securities Group
- Smiths Group
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Compass Group
- Fresnillo
- Man Group
- Next
- Tesco
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
PDF testing
21.0% 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 |
28.19% |
| file/url/badpath None |
22.35% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.96% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.81% |
| file/url/badquery None |
6.97% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
6.81% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.59% |
| file/html/notitle None |
4.07% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.31% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.81% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.40% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
24.57% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.99% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
10.23% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
9.63% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.00% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.18% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.27% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.08% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.34% |