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FTSE 350 Qtr 2 2009

Error free sites

  • 3I Group
  • Anglo American
  • Ashmore Group
  • Atkins (WS)
  • Babcock International Group
  • Baillie Gifford (Monks Inv Tst)
  • Babcock & Brown Public Partnerships
  • Berkeley Group Holdings
  • BH Global
  • British Empire Securities
  • Capita Group
  • Carnival
  • Catlin Group LD
  • Charter International
  • City of London Investment Trust
  • Connaught
  • Cranswick
  • Dana Petroleum
  • Electra Private Equity
  • Electrocomponents
  • Evolution Group
  • Ferrexpo
  • Hargreaves Lansdown
  • Hammerson
  • Hikma Pharmaceuticals
  • Home Retail Group
  • Intermediate Capital Group
  • IMI
  • Interserve
  • Ladbrokes
  • Land Securities Group
  • Law Debenture Corp
  • Liberty International
  • Logica
  • Merchants Trust
  • Misys
  • Mondi
  • Monks Investment Trust PLC
  • Morgan Crucible Co
  • Novae Group
  • Premier Foods
  • Provident Financial
  • PZ Cussons
  • Rolls-Royce Group
  • Smiths Group
  • Stagecoach Group
  • Temple Bar Investment Trust
  • TR Property Investment Trust
  • Tullett Prebon
  • Vedanta Resources
  • VT Group
  • Xchanging

Failing A & AA on every page

  • 888 Holdings
  • Aegis Group
  • BTG
  • Carnival
  • Colt Telecom Group SA
  • Compass Group
  • Cranswick
  • Domino's Pizza
  • Smith (DS)
  • Dunelm Group
  • Emerald Energy
  • Evolution Group
  • Fresnillo
  • Henderson Group
  • Hochschild Mining
  • Hunting
  • Informa
  • Intertek Group
  • Bankers Investment Trust
  • McBride
  • Meggitt
  • Mondi
  • Morgan Crucible Co
  • Paypoint
  • Premier Oil
  • Fidessa Group
  • SDL
  • Spirent Communications
  • Sports Direct International
  • Temple Bar Investment Trust
  • Tullett Prebon

Excluded from index

  • 3i Infrastructure
  • Antofagasta
  • Baring Emerging Europe
  • Bluecrest Allblue Fund
  • Burberry Group
  • Genus
  • British Assets Trust
  • JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
  • JPMorgan EUR Fledgeling investment trust
  • Mercantile Investment TST (the)
  • JPMorgan Indian Inv Trust
  • JP Morgan
  • Polar Capital Technology Trust
  • Templeton Emerging Markets IT
  • Thames River Multi Hedge PCC (GBP)

Index facts

Sites tested: 27 Apr 2009
Total URLs tested: 148,147
Total tests run: 48,322,365
Total number of PDF's: 6,715
URLs failing functional tests: 2.53
Pages failing code standards: 74.20
Pages missing a title: 1.33
Pages failing accessibility level A: 29.42
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 29.42
Poorest code quality: Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 301,770 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Daejan Holdings (http://www.daejanholdings.com/)

PDF testing

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.

22.3% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/badcookie 41.75%
url/fetch/notfound 34.01%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 8.65%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.52%
url/fetch/badport 2.34%
url/fetch/accessdenied 2.04%
url/fetch/timeout 1.74%
file/html/noframes 1.58%
url/fetch/redirectloop 1.14%
url/fetch/badscheme 0.76%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 31.00%
file/html/badentity 30.97%
file/html/tagnotallowed 10.67%
file/html/badvalue 7.30%
file/html/badattr 5.55%
file/html/unknowntag 5.20%
file/html/closingunopened 3.12%
file/html/repeatedattr 2.09%
file/html/missingclose 2.03%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.85%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford