2009 Q3/FTSE 350
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
20 Jul 2009
- Total URLs tested:
154,497
- Total tests run:
50,391,575
- Total number of PDF's:
6,925
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.70%
- Pages failing code standards:
74.58%
- Pages missing a title:
1.31%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
27.63%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
95.25%
- Poorest code quality:
Mothercare (http://www.mothercare.com/) - 302,704 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smiths Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Marstons | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 98.40 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 93.60 |
| Wpp | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 84.80 |
| Provident Financial | 100.00 | 76.80 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 62.40 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 100.00 | 48.80 |
| Liberty International | 100.00 | 48.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 100.00 | 45.95 |
| BT Group | 100.00 | 43.20 |
| Wolseley | 100.00 | 40.00 |
| Wellstream Holdings | 100.00 | 28.00 |
| Brewin Dolphin Holdings | 100.00 | 25.41 |
| Charter International | 100.00 | 14.29 |
| Heritage Oil | 100.00 | 9.09 |
| SABMiller | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| BARR (A.G.) | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| BSS Group | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| William Hill | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Ashmore Group | 100.00 | 1.09 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Prudential | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Standard Life | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Astrazeneca | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Baillie Gifford (Scottish Inv Tr) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chloride Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Connaught | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DSG International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Domino Printing Sciences | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electra Private Equity | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Enterprise Inns | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fisher (James) & Sons | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Great Portland Estates | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Homeserve | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| ITV | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Impax Environmental Markets | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| International Public Partnership | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| JP Morgan Asset Management | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| JPMorgan Indian Inv Trust | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Law Debenture Corp | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds Banking Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melrose PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mercantile Investment TST (the) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Monks Investment Trust PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Peter Hambro Mining | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Salamander Energy | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Severn Trent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stobart Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Synergy Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Talvivaara Mining Company | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Wimpey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronics Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Business Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vectura Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 99.20 | 19.20 |
| Barclays | 99.20 | 8.80 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.20 | 8.00 |
| Dana Petroleum | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Arm Holdings | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Burberry Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Caledonia Investments | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Chaucer Holdings | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| RSA Insurance Group | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Rathbone Brothers | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Schroders | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Spirent Communications | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| eaga | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Rank Group | 99.19 | 0.00 |
| Robert Wiseman Dairies | 99.04 | 0.00 |
| BH Global | 98.53 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 98.40 | 65.60 |
| Serco Group | 98.40 | 40.00 |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Aggreko | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Game Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Melrose Resources | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| BH Macro | 98.08 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 97.60 | 48.80 |
| J Sainsbury | 97.60 | 43.20 |
| Venture Production | 97.60 | 23.20 |
| Amlin | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| ICAP | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| IG Group Holdings | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| National Express Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Pace | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| British Empire Securities | 97.44 | 0.00 |
| Bluebay Asset Management | 97.37 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 96.80 | 4.00 |
| TR Property Investment Trust | 96.80 | 1.60 |
| Experian | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 96.00 | 10.40 |
| Halma | 96.00 | 9.60 |
| Aviva | 96.00 | 1.60 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Euromoney Institutional Investors | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 95.24 | 1.90 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Arriva | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Dynamic Opportunities | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities | 95.00 | 0.00 |
| Blackrock World Mining Trust | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Petrofac | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 93.60 | 1.60 |
| Ashtead Group | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 92.80 | 11.20 |
| Carillion | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Trust | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Restaurant Group | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| BBA Aviation | 91.20 | 20.80 |
| Anglo American | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh Dragon Trust | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Genus | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Col | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Helical Bar | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Murray International Trust | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Tui Travel | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities Group | 89.60 | 65.60 |
| Pearson | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Dechra Pharmaceuticals | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Derwent London | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 87.20 | 1.60 |
| Logica | 87.20 | 0.80 |
| Atkins (WS) | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| SEGRO | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Ferrexpo | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| British Land Co | 84.80 | 44.00 |
| Easyjet | 84.80 | 0.80 |
| Capita Group | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Carphone Warehouse Group | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 82.40 | 4.80 |
| Associated British Foods | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Regus | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 78.40 | 18.40 |
| Close Brothers Group | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Persimmon | 73.60 | 0.80 |
| SThree | 72.60 | 1.37 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 68.93 | 0.00 |
| Fidelity Trusts | 68.00 | 0.00 |
| St James's Place | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trust | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Interserve | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Aveva Group | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Cookson Group | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Morrison Wm Supermarkets | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| moneysupermarket.com group | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoon | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Absolute Return Trust | 51.14 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 48.00 | 0.00 |
| De La Rue | 47.20 | 1.60 |
| Thomson Reuters | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Infrastructure Company | 43.96 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| BPP Holdings | 42.40 | 0.00 |
| Thomas Cook Group | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 40.80 | 2.40 |
| Mothercare | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| BP | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 30.23 | 0.00 |
| Novae Group | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| Telecity Group | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Rightmove | 24.80 | 4.00 |
| Dignity | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Keller | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Greggs | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 17.02 | 0.00 |
| Beazley | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Holdings | 9.60 | 11.20 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Soco International | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Computacenter | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| IMI | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Sports Direct International | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| G4S | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.55 | 0.00 |
| Fresnillo | 4.55 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King | 3.45 | 0.00 |
| Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Daejan Holdings | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| PV Crystalox Solar | 2.56 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 2.40 | 1.60 |
| Carnival | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Next | 1.60 | 0.80 |
| Bellway | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Xchanging | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Aegis Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy Corporation | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data Holdings | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| 888 Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BTG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| City of London Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cranswick | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Domino's Pizza | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dunelm Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Emerald Energy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Evolution Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Fidessa Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hochschild Mining | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Informa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| McBride | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mondi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| SDL | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smith (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tullett Prebon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Anglo American
- Ashmore Group
- International Public Partnership
- Berkeley Group Holdings
- Blackrock World Mining Trust
- British Empire Securities
- Burberry Group
- Catlin Group LD
- Charter International
- Cobham
- Connaught
- Dana Petroleum
- Electra Private Equity
- Electrocomponents
- Evolution Group
- Hammerson
- HSBC Infrastructure Company
- Home Retail Group
- IG Group Holdings
- Interserve
- ITV
- Kier Group
- Land Securities Group
- Law Debenture Corp
- Merchants Trust
- Mondi
- Monks Investment Trust PLC
- Novae Group
- Peter Hambro Mining
- Petrofac
- Provident Financial
- PZ Cussons
- Randgold Resources
- SIG
- Smiths Group
- Spirent Communications
- Stagecoach Group
- TR Property Investment Trust
- Tullett Prebon
- Victrex
- Wpp
- Xchanging
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- 888 Holdings
- BTG
- Catlin Group LD
- Colt Telecom Group SA
- Compass Group
- Cranswick
- Domino's Pizza
- Smith (DS)
- Dunelm Group
- Emerald Energy
- Evolution Group
- City of London Investment Trust
- Hochschild Mining
- Hunting
- Informa
- Bankers Investment Trust
- McBride
- Mondi
- Morgan Crucible Co
- Paypoint
- Fidessa Group
- SDL
- Temple Bar Investment Trust
- Tullett Prebon
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- 3i Infrastructure
- Antofagasta
- Bluecrest Allblue Fund (GBP)
- UK Commercial Property Trust
- Investec
- British Assets Trust
- JPMorgan EUR Fledgeling investment trust
- JP Morgan
- Polar Capital Technology Trust
- Templeton Emerging Markets IT
- Thames River Multi Hedge PCC (GBP)
PDF testing
21.5% 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 |
60.74% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
25.11% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.71% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.43% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.67% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.62% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
1.41% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.95% |
| file/html/noframes A <frameset> tag was found, but no <noframes> |
0.86% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.72% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.96% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
33.73% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.36% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.01% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.92% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.72% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.47% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.98% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.27% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.27% |