2008 Q4/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
12 Dec 2008
- Total URLs tested:
95,636
- Total tests run:
31,229,640
- Total number of PDF's:
5,690
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.66%
- Pages failing code standards:
77.09%
- Pages missing a title:
1.65%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
33.97%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
96.69%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 288,737 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Mail & General Trust (http://www.dmgt.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 |
|---|---|---|
| St.Modwen Properties | 100.00 | 96.80 |
| Marstons | 100.00 | 74.22 |
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 53.60 |
| Mecom Group | 100.00 | 50.00 |
| Grainger | 100.00 | 30.40 |
| Wellstream Holdings | 100.00 | 27.34 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 22.40 |
| Charter International | 100.00 | 14.29 |
| Heritage Oil | 100.00 | 11.43 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 7.89 |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| William Hill | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 1.06 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Aggreko | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Aricom | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arm Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Babcock & Brown Public Partnerships | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chloride Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Connaught | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Domino Printing Sciences | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Enterprise Inns | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Homeserve | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Law Debenture Corp | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Monks Investment Trust PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Mortgage Inv Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Synergy Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Talvivaara Mining Company | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Personal Finance | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 99.21 | 20.63 |
| Dana Petroleum | 99.21 | 20.63 |
| Arriva | 99.21 | 1.57 |
| Elementis | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Energy Corp | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Melrose Resources | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Senior | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| eaga | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 99.16 | 0.00 |
| Fenner | 99.06 | 0.00 |
| Baring Emerging Europe | 98.44 | 75.78 |
| Amlin | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Impax Environmental Markets | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 98.40 | 64.00 |
| Venture Production | 98.40 | 24.00 |
| MITIE Group | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| Carillion | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Game Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Laird | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| WSP group | 97.66 | 0.78 |
| Yell Group | 97.64 | 51.18 |
| Helical Bar | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 97.60 | 1.60 |
| Caledonia Investments | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| BH Macro | 97.53 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 97.44 | 0.00 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 97.37 | 0.00 |
| BH Global | 97.30 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Halma | 96.83 | 11.90 |
| Partygaming | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 96.43 | 1.79 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Dynamic Opportunities | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 95.65 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 95.35 | 28.68 |
| National Express Group | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 95.15 | 1.94 |
| Chemring Group | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 94.49 | 20.47 |
| UK Coal | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Genus | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Restaurant Group | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet | 90.40 | 0.80 |
| Edinburgh Dragon Trust | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Logica | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Gem Diamonds | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Cattles | 87.60 | 0.00 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 86.82 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Trust | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Ferrexpo | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| SEGRO | 84.50 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 81.08 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 80.62 | 23.26 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| moneysupermarket.com group | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Axon Group | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Close Brothers Group | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Salamander Energy | 63.78 | 0.00 |
| Interserve | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Mothercare | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 58.73 | 0.00 |
| Blackrock World Mining Trust | 58.27 | 0.00 |
| Redrow | 58.14 | 0.00 |
| International Ferro Metals | 54.26 | 0.00 |
| Fidelity (Edinburgh Inv Tst) | 53.60 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 48.03 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 42.86 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 41.86 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 40.62 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 33.86 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 33.33 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoon | 33.07 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 30.95 | 0.00 |
| Rightmove | 21.88 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 21.09 | 0.00 |
| Dignity | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 18.11 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| Telecity Group | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 10.00 | 0.00 |
| Regus | 9.30 | 0.00 |
| Brixton | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 7.81 | 0.00 |
| Hardy Oil & Gas | 7.32 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| ITE Group | 6.56 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 6.30 | 3.94 |
| Soco International | 6.30 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| Sports Direct International | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.65 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.91 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 3.51 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| PV Crystalox Solar | 3.08 | 0.00 |
| Wincanton | 2.97 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 2.33 | 1.55 |
| HSBC Infrastructure Company | 2.27 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| Spice | 1.75 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Domino's Pizza | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Xchanging | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| De La Rue | 1.55 | 0.78 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 1.55 | 0.00 |
| Mondi | 0.79 | 0.79 |
| Hays | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| 888 Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Aegis Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BTG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Candover Investments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Fidessa Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pantheon Intl Participations | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Arriva
- Electra Private Equity
- Melrose PLC
- Pantheon Intl Participations
- Rotork
- St.Modwen Properties
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- 888 Holdings
- Aegis Group
- Bellway
- BTG
- Candover Investments
- Catlin Group LD
- Colt Telecom Group SA
- Smith (DS)
- Henderson Group
- Hochschild Mining
- Hunting
- Informa
- Intertek Group
- Morgan Crucible Co
- Pantheon Intl Participations
- Premier Oil
- Provident Financial
- RIT Capital Partners
- Fidessa Group
- Spirent Communications
- Temple Bar Investment Trust
- Tullett Prebon
- Weir Group
- Witan Investment Trust
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Dexion Absolute
- 3i Infrastructure
- Babcock International Group
- Burberry Group
- British Assets Trust
- JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
- JPMorgan EUR Fledgeling investment trust
- Mercantile Investment TST (the)
- JPMorgan Indian Inv Trust
- JP Morgan
- JPMorgan Russian Secs
- Templeton Emerging Markets IT
- Thames River Multi Hedge PCC (GBP)
PDF testing
23.9% 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 |
24.25% |
| file/url/badpath None |
18.97% |
| file/url/offtop None |
16.43% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
6.06% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
4.04% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.74% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
3.61% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.35% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.19% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.48% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.85% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.58% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.77% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.47% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.75% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.41% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.33% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.31% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.54% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.45% |