February 2009/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
17 Feb 2009
- Total URLs tested:
49,511
- Total tests run:
16,128,437
- Total number of PDF's:
1,437
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.19%
- Pages failing code standards:
67.91%
- Pages missing a title:
2.08%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
20.66%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.49%
- Poorest code quality:
Shire (http://www.shire.com/) - 49,457 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 | 99.20 |
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 93.60 |
| Wpp | 100.00 | 88.80 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 88.00 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 76.00 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 61.60 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 58.40 |
| J Sainsbury | 100.00 | 39.20 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 38.40 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 19.20 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 8.80 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Astrazeneca | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Experian | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds Banking 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 |
| Vedanta Resources | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 99.20 | 44.80 |
| FirstGroup | 99.20 | 17.60 |
| Barclays | 99.20 | 11.20 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Balfour Beatty | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Amlin | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 96.80 | 4.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 96.00 | 16.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Schroders | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Smith & Nephew | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 89.60 | 0.80 |
| Diageo | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 86.40 | 0.80 |
| BAE Systems | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 85.60 | 73.60 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 84.00 | 0.80 |
| Cable & Wireless | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 64.80 | 0.80 |
| Bg Group | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 42.40 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| BP | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Thomson Reuters | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.02 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 16.80 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- 3I Group
- Cobham
- Hammerson
- Home Retail Group
- International Power
- Land Securities Group
- Liberty International
- Smiths Group
- Unilever
- Vedanta Resources
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Carnival
- Compass Group
- Next
- Rolls-Royce Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
PDF testing
20.7% 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/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
55.54% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
21.11% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
12.43% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.97% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
2.46% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
1.96% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.23% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.67% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.62% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.50% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
27.78% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.96% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
11.42% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
8.07% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.20% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
6.81% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.13% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.42% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.00% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.74% |