December 2008/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
22 Dec 2008
- Total URLs tested:
152,374
- Total tests run:
49,523,032
- Total number of PDF's:
57
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.14%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.24%
- Pages missing a title:
1.17%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
74.04%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.55%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 217,343 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 |
| Daily Mail | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.25 | 0.78 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| FT | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 87.30 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 76.56 | 0.78 |
| PA News Centre | 74.22 | 25.00 |
| China Times | 73.02 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 67.20 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 63.78 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 61.60 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 61.54 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 59.06 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 58.59 | 0.78 |
| ITN News | 56.00 | 6.40 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 53.97 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 53.54 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 37.50 | 1.56 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 35.71 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 20.63 | 1.59 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 19.05 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Sports | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| USA Today | 15.87 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 12.70 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 12.50 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 11.20 | 1.60 |
| Apple Daily | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 7.09 | 0.79 |
| Trud | 6.98 | 0.78 |
| Bild | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.15 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Sunday Herald | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 2.38 | 0.79 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 1.57 | 0.79 |
| Chicago Tribune | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Anandabazar Patrika | 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 |
| Eenadu | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Komsomolskaya Pravda | 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 |
| News of the World | 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 |
| 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
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Bloomberg
- Daily Sport
- Daily Star
- Eenadu
- Daily Express
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Matichon
- Khao Sod
- Metro
- News of the World
- Sandesh
- Shizuoka Shimbun
- The Business
- The Courier
- Times Online
- Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Beijing Evening News
- WAZ Mediengruppe
- Nanfang Daily
PDF testing
40.4% 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 |
29.92% |
| file/url/offtop None |
19.76% |
| file/url/badpath None |
17.18% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
11.92% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.01% |
| file/url/badscheme None |
3.19% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.05% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.11% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.94% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.81% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
38.24% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
38.10% |
| 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 |
4.58% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.90% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.50% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.05% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.04% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.73% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.48% |