2010 Q1/Global Life Sciences



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    27 Feb 2010

  • Total URLs tested:

    34,264

  • Total tests run:

    11,217,986

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,161

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.24%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    79.03%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.95%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    50.25%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.88%

  • Poorest code quality:

    F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG Global (http://www.roche.com/) - 22,189 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Vifor (International) Ltd. (http://www.vifor.com/)




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
AmVac AG100.0024.00
Lunamed AG100.008.33
Basilea Pharmaceutic​a Ltd.100.006.40
OMIDA AG100.002.78
Arpida AG100.000.80
Evolva SA100.000.80
BioPartners GmbH100.000.00
BioVersys GmbH100.000.00
Covagen AG100.000.00
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Switzerland100.000.00
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
Valeant Pharmaceutic​als Switzerland GmbH​100.000.00
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Global99.200.00
Medinova AG99.200.00
Nycomed Internationa​l Management GmbH98.404.00
Siegfried AG98.400.00
Biogen Idec Internat​ional GmbH98.360.00
Newron97.870.00
Addex Pharmaceutical​s97.600.00
Helvepharm AG96.800.80
Helsinn Healthcare S​.A.95.520.00
Cytos Biotechnology ​AG95.200.80
Axenoll AG94.810.00
4-Antibody AG94.740.00
CSL Behring AG89.710.00
Ferring Internationa​l Center SA87.200.00
Neurotune85.710.00
Novartis Internation​al AG84.000.00
Nycomed Pharma AG73.080.00
Crucell | Berna Biot​ech Ltd72.090.00
Streuli Pharma AG56.800.00
Medipol SA45.2430.95
Baxter Switzerland37.600.00
Anavex Life Sciences​ Corp.32.2922.92
Merck Serono Interna​tional SA32.0026.40
Lipideon Biotechnolo​gy AG30.000.00
Octapharma AG27.200.00
NovImmune25.600.00
Bayer Schweiz AG22.404.80
Max Zeller Söhne AG​22.400.00
Spirig Pharma AG11.200.00
Antares Pharma AG11.110.00
Solvay Pharma AG8.700.00
AC Immune SA7.890.00
Merck Sharp &​ Dohme-Chibret AG7.630.00
PharmaSwiss SA - HQ7.147.14
Aurora Pharma GmbH5.950.00
Gruenenthal Pharma A​G5.600.00
Novartis Pharma Schw​eiz AG4.800.00
Actelion Ltd.3.200.00
AstraZeneca AG3.200.00
Med Discovery S.A.3.030.00
Nitec Pharma AG2.700.00
Mepha Pharma AG2.400.00
Cryo-Save AG2.220.00
Debiopharm S.A.0.800.80
GlycoVaxyn AG0.0056.25
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
Neurim Pharmaceutica​ls S.A.0.000.00
OM PHARMA0.000.00
Permamed AG0.000.00
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
  • Kuros Biosurgery AG
  • Lipideon Biotechnology AG
  • Lunamed AG
  • Med Discovery S.A.
  • Medinova AG
  • 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
  • mondoBIOTECH AG
  • Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A.
  • OM PHARMA
  • Permamed AG
  • Schwabe Pharma AG
  • Vifor (International) Ltd.
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Anergis SA
  • Axentis Pharma AG
  • Dybly AG
  • IBSA
  • Janssen-Cilag AG
  • Eli Lilly Schweiz AG
  • Lumavita AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • Novo Nordisk Pharma AG
  • Pfizer AG
  • Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AG
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PDF testing

22.6% 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
78.36%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
8.08%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
4.17%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
3.00%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.69%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.69%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
1.04%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
0.78%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.65%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.26%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
23.62%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
23.43%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.63%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.83%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
8.59%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.57%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.16%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
3.32%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.09%
file/url/badquery
Illegal character in URL query section
2.39%