February 2009/Significant News Sources
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
25 Feb 2009
- Total URLs tested:
159,363
- Total tests run:
51,793,781
- Total number of PDF's:
31
- URLs failing functional tests:
1.85%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.91%
- Pages missing a title:
1.33%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
74.62%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.78%
- Poorest code quality:
The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/) - 228,212 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Daily Sport (http://www.dailysport.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 |
|---|---|---|
| ITN News | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The People | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Daily Mail | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Mail On Sunday | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Scotland on Sunday | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| icWales | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Channel 4 News | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| The Mirror | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Chunichi Shimbun | 90.40 | 0.80 |
| Scotsman | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| FT | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Telegraph | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Asahi Shimbun | 85.60 | 0.80 |
| Mainichi Shimbun | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| BBC News | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Nihon Keizai Shimbun | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| China Times | 68.00 | 0.00 |
| PA News Centre | 67.20 | 9.60 |
| New York Daily News | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| Five News | 60.80 | 0.00 |
| La Repubblica | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| JoongAng Ilbo | 58.33 | 0.00 |
| Guardian | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| The Press and Journal | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochi Shimbun | 50.40 | 1.60 |
| Reuters | 38.40 | 0.00 |
| Sankei Shimbun | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| The Sunday Post | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| Observer | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Evening Standard | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Kyoto Shimbun | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Chugoku Shimbun | 17.60 | 1.60 |
| Daily Sport | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| The Chosun Ilbo | 16.80 | 0.80 |
| Sankei Sports | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| The Nikkan Gendai | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| United Daily News | 12.80 | 1.60 |
| USA Today | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Bild | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Kobe Shimbun | 11.20 | 0.80 |
| Apple Daily | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| De Telegraaf | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Malayala Manorama | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Jagran | 8.00 | 0.80 |
| CNN International | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| The Herald | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Jang | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| The Washington Post | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Tokyo Sports | 5.15 | 0.00 |
| Trud | 4.80 | 0.80 |
| Nishinippon Shimbun | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| The Sun | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Corriere della Sera | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Hindustan Times | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Moskovskiy Komsomolets | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Post | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| The Hindu | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Daily News | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Dong-a Ilbo | 2.40 | 0.80 |
| Daily Thanthi | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Dainik Bhaskar | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Los Angeles Times | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Nanfang Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Peopleâs Daily | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Sunday Herald | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Chicago Tribune | 1.60 | 0.80 |
| CNBC | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat Samachar | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| News of the World | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Nikkan Sports | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Yangtse Evening Post | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Kom Chad Luek | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Al-Ahram | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Eenadu | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Guangzhou Daily | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Independent | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Matichon | 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 |
| Anandabazar Patrika | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Beijing Evening News | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bloomberg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Express | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daily Star | 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 |
| Metro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ouest-France | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan Patrika | 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 |
| Times Online | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| WAZ Mediengruppe | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Xinmin Evening News (Shanghai) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- The Nikkan Gendai
- Nanfang Daily
- Ouest-France
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Sky News
- Anandabazar Patrika
- Beijing Evening News
- Bloomberg
- Daily Star
- WAZ Mediengruppe
- Daily Express
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Kronen Zeitung
- Mathrubhumi
- Khao Sod
- Metro
- Ouest-France
- 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.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
9.68% 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 |
48.78% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
20.75% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
9.98% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
9.29% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.33% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.69% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.38% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.29% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.78% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
0.72% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.33% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.21% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.32% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.80% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.84% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.22% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.09% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.89% |
| 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 |
0.60% |