February 2010/FTSE 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    05 Feb 2010

  • Total URLs tested:

    158,866

  • Total tests run:

    51,832,274

  • Total number of PDF's:

    7,724

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    17.05%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    68.34%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.32%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    19.91%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    92.05%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Marks & Spencer Group (http://www.marksandspencer.com/) - 284,052 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Alliance Trust (http://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/)




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
Land Securities Grou​p100.00100.00
Smiths Group100.0095.20
Sage Group100.0090.40
Wpp100.0089.60
Barclays100.0077.00
Kingfisher100.0060.80
Imperial Tobacco Gro​up100.0047.20
Liberty Internationa​l100.0046.40
SABMiller100.009.60
Intercontinental Hot​els Group100.003.20
BT Group100.000.80
British American Tob​acco100.000.80
Centrica100.000.80
Prudential100.000.80
Rexam100.000.80
Royal Bank Of Scotla​nd Group100.000.80
Standard Life100.000.80
British Land Co100.000.00
Experian100.000.00
Home Retail Group100.000.00
Lloyds Banking Group​100.000.00
London Stock Exchang​e Group100.000.00
Old Mutual100.000.00
Severn Trent100.000.00
Tui Travel100.000.00
Unilever100.000.00
Wolseley100.000.00
Serco Group99.2044.80
J Sainsbury99.2037.60
International Power99.202.40
Legal &​ General Group99.202.40
3I Group99.200.80
Reckitt Benckiser Gr​oup99.200.80
Bhp Billiton99.200.00
Burberry Group99.200.00
HSBC Holdings99.200.00
Royal Dutch Shell99.200.00
Whitbread99.200.00
Intertek Group98.400.00
Pearson98.400.00
Reed Elsevier98.400.00
Cable &​ Wireless97.604.00
Aviva97.602.40
Next97.601.60
British Airways97.600.00
Bunzl97.600.00
Scottish &​ Southern Energy97.600.00
Vedanta Resources97.370.00
Inmarsat96.800.00
RSA Insurance Group96.800.00
Cobham96.000.00
Associated British F​oods95.200.80
Cairn Energy95.200.00
Shire94.400.80
Aggreko94.400.00
ICAP93.600.00
Petrofac93.600.00
Tullow Oil93.600.00
Rio Tinto92.800.00
Man Group92.000.00
Vodafone Group90.400.80
BAE Systems90.400.00
United Utilities Gro​up89.6040.00
Astrazeneca88.800.00
Cadbury88.800.00
Diageo88.800.00
Invensys88.800.00
Compass Group86.400.80
Schroders86.400.00
Xstrata86.400.00
GlaxoSmithKline85.600.00
National Grid81.6011.20
Marks &​ Spencer Group80.000.00
Alliance Trust76.800.00
Autonomy Corporation​76.800.00
Anglo American72.800.00
Hammerson71.200.00
Kazakhmys69.602.40
Bg Group69.600.00
Morrison Wm Supermar​kets67.200.00
Standard Chartered64.000.00
Capita Group63.200.00
British Sky Broadcas​ting Group44.804.00
Thomas Cook Group39.200.00
Admiral Group17.890.00
Lonmin16.800.00
BP13.600.00
Randgold Resources12.000.00
AMEC7.201.60
Eurasian Natural Res​ources Corporation7.200.00
Smith &​ Nephew6.400.00
Fresnillo5.830.83
G4S4.800.00
Johnson Matthey3.200.00
Rolls-Royce Group0.800.00
Carnival0.000.00
SEGRO0.000.00
Tesco0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Standard Life
  • Hammerson
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Carnival
  • SEGRO
  • Tesco
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Antofagasta
  • Resolution
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PDF testing

21.0% 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/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
95.03%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
3.65%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.48%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.32%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
0.31%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
0.06%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.04%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.03%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
0.03%
file/html/noframes
A <frameset> tag was found, but no <noframes>
0.02%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
35.47%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
35.31%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.52%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.27%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
4.69%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
4.34%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.19%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.44%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
0.98%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
0.77%