2009 Q4/Global Life Sciences



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    30 Nov 2009

  • Total URLs tested:

    35,517

  • Total tests run:

    11,634,701

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,526

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.22%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    81.05%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.78%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    55.00%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    98.22%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Nycomed International Management GmbH (http://www.nycomed.com/) - 9,436 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Tricom GmbH, Pharma Division (http://www.tricomgmbh.ch/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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)
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Organisation A AA
GlycoVaxyn AG100.0050.00
Lunamed AG100.008.33
Basilea Pharmaceutic​a Ltd.100.003.20
AmVac AG100.000.00
BioPartners GmbH100.000.00
BioVersys GmbH100.000.00
Covagen AG100.000.00
Johnson &​ Johnson Pharmaceuti​cal Research &​ Development100.000.00
Kuros Biosurgery AG100.000.00
Neurimmune Therapeut​ics AG100.000.00
Tricom GmbH, Pharma ​Division100.000.00
Addex Pharmaceutical​s99.200.00
Arpida AG99.200.00
Nycomed Internationa​l Management GmbH98.401.60
Siegfried AG98.400.00
Wyeth Pharmaceutical​s AG98.400.00
Biogen Idec Internat​ional GmbH98.330.00
Newron97.960.00
Helvepharm AG96.800.80
Helsinn Healthcare S​.A.95.310.00
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Global95.200.00
4-Antibody AG94.740.00
Evolva SA94.2116.53
Cytos Biotechnology ​AG93.600.80
Axenoll AG92.210.00
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Switzerland91.200.00
CSL Behring AG89.710.00
Ferring Internationa​l Center SA87.200.00
Neurotune86.210.00
Novartis Internation​al AG76.000.00
Nycomed Pharma AG73.080.00
Crucell | Berna Biot​ech Ltd72.090.00
Streuli Pharma AG56.800.00
Axentis Pharma AG50.000.00
Medipol SA45.2430.95
Merck Serono Interna​tional SA32.8028.80
Anavex Life Sciences​ Corp.31.9122.34
Lipideon Biotechnolo​gy AG30.000.00
Baxter Switzerland27.200.00
Octapharma AG27.200.00
NovImmune25.600.00
Max Zeller Söhne AG​22.400.00
Bayer Schweiz AG20.804.80
Gruenenthal Pharma A​G18.400.00
Antares Pharma AG11.110.00
Spirig Pharma AG10.400.00
AC Immune SA7.690.00
Aurora Pharma GmbH5.950.00
Novartis Pharma Schw​eiz AG5.600.00
Merck Sharp &​ Dohme-Chibret AG3.510.00
Actelion Ltd.3.200.00
AstraZeneca AG3.200.00
Med Discovery S.A.3.120.00
Nitec Pharma AG2.700.00
Mepha Pharma AG2.400.00
Cryo-Save AG1.110.00
Debiopharm S.A.0.800.80
3-V Biosciences GmbH​0.000.00
Alpex Pharma SA0.000.00
ArisGen SA0.000.00
Auris Medical AG0.000.00
ESBATECH AG0.000.00
Ergonex Pharma GmbH0.000.00
GKL Biotec AG0.000.00
Galenica Ltd.0.000.00
GeNeuro SA0.000.00
GenKyoTex SA0.000.00
Kenta Biotech AG0.000.00
Medinova AG0.000.00
Neurim Pharmaceutica​ls S.A.0.000.00
Novo Nordisk Pharma ​AG0.000.00
OM PHARMA0.000.00
OMIDA AG0.000.00
Permamed AG0.000.00
PharmaSwiss SA - HQ0.000.00
Schwabe Pharma AG0.000.00
Vifor (International​) Ltd.0.000.00
mondoBIOTECH AG0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Alpex Pharma SA
  • ArisGen SA
  • Axentis Pharma AG
  • Kuros Biosurgery AG
  • Lipideon Biotechnology AG
  • Lunamed AG
  • Med Discovery S.A.
  • Neurimmune Therapeutics AG
  • Nycomed Pharma AG
  • PharmaSwiss SA - HQ
  • Tricom GmbH, Pharma Division
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • 3-V Biosciences GmbH
  • Alpex Pharma SA
  • ArisGen SA
  • Auris Medical AG
  • Ergonex Pharma GmbH
  • ESBATECH AG
  • Galenica Ltd.
  • GeNeuro SA
  • GenKyoTex SA
  • GKL Biotec AG
  • Kenta Biotech AG
  • Medinova AG
  • mondoBIOTECH AG
  • Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A.
  • Novo Nordisk Pharma AG
  • OMIDA AG
  • OM PHARMA
  • Permamed AG
  • PharmaSwiss SA - HQ
  • Schwabe Pharma AG
  • Vifor (International) Ltd.
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Anergis SA
  • Dybly AG
  • IBSA
  • Janssen-Cilag AG
  • Eli Lilly Schweiz AG
  • Lumavita AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • Pfizer AG
  • Solvay Pharma AG
  • Valeant Pharmaceuticals Switzerland GmbH
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PDF testing

22.4% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
68.19%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
10.01%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
7.22%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
5.70%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
3.42%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.90%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.14%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.01%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.38%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
0.38%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
16.95%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
16.70%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
12.85%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
11.56%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.70%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
9.23%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.20%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
4.08%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
3.74%
file/url/badquery
Illegal character in URL query section
2.59%