January 2009/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
28 Jan 2009
- Total URLs tested:
157,184
- Total tests run:
51,085,814
- Total number of PDF's:
39
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.02%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.48%
- Pages missing a title:
1.25%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
74.08%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.68%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 228,669 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ITN News | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| icWales | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The People | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Telegraph | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Scotsman | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| FT | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 87.20 | 0.80 |
| BBC News | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| New York Daily News | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 67.20 | 12.80 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 57.14 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 51.20 | 0.80 |
| China Times | 50.40 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Daily Sport | 35.20 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 33.60 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Reuters | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 23.20 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 20.00 | 2.40 |
| Sankei Sports | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 15.20 | 1.60 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 14.40 | 0.80 |
| USA Today | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 13.60 | 0.80 |
| Malayala Manorama | 13.60 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Apple Daily | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| CNN International | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 5.60 | 0.80 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.15 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Trud | 3.20 | 0.80 |
| Daily Thanthi | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Nanfang Daily | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| CNBC | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Sky News | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Thai Rath | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| The New York Times | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| The Times of India | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Anandabazar Patrika | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bloomberg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Express | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Star | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Khao Sod | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 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 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sandesh | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Shizuoka Shimbun | 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.
- Kronen Zeitung
- Nanfang Daily
- Sankei Sports
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- Al-Ahram
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Bloomberg
- Daily Star
- Daily Express
- Independent
- Kom Chad Luek
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Matichon
- Khao Sod
- Metro
- Rajasthan Patrika
- 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
PDF testing
7.69% 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.
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
47.09% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
21.54% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
15.86% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
5.94% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.83% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.11% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.11% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.85% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.56% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.35% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.47% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.40% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.99% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.53% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.04% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.39% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.95% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.93% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.70% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.63% |