September 2006/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
29 Sep 2006
- Total URLs tested:
47,455
- Total tests run:
15,460,211
- Total number of PDF's:
1,436
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.84%
- Pages failing code standards:
76.72%
- Pages missing a title:
1.49%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
27.43%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
95.11%
- Poorest code quality:
Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 62,866 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Vedanta Resources (http://www.vedantaresources.com/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Group | 100.00 | 97.64 |
| Land Securities Group | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 53.49 |
| British Land Co | 100.00 | 31.20 |
| Bt Group | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Aviva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhp Billiton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cadbury Schweppes | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Capita Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Centrica | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Drax Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gus | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Next | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Old Mutual | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rexam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rio Tinto | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Utilities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Yell Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury(J) | 99.21 | 18.25 |
| Itv | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General Group | 99.20 | 61.60 |
| British American Tobacco | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 98.43 | 5.51 |
| Brambles Industries | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Smith & Nephew | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| British Airways | 98.41 | 0.79 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 97.64 | 5.51 |
| Anglo American | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 96.88 | 1.56 |
| Severn Trent | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Hbos | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Kelda Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Partygaming | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Bp | 95.31 | 14.84 |
| Shire | 95.31 | 0.78 |
| Scottish Power | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| International Power | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Sabmiller | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Hanson | 93.65 | 0.79 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| Resolution | 88.80 | 7.20 |
| Diageo | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 83.59 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 75.59 | 6.30 |
| Tesco | 72.09 | 6.98 |
| Liberty International | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 61.42 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered | 58.14 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 56.80 | 28.80 |
| Amvescap | 54.05 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 52.76 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 51.56 | 31.25 |
| Royal Bank Of Scotland Group | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Bae Systems | 34.92 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 27.56 | 0.00 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.77 | 1.75 |
| Dsg International | 6.30 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 4.72 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 3.97 | 3.97 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 1.60 | 12.00 |
| Man Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Lonmin | 0.78 | 0.78 |
| Astrazeneca | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carnival | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Corus Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Icap | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kazakhmys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Reuters Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smiths Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Centrica
- Sainsbury(J)
- Lloyds TSB Group
- National Grid
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Corus Group
- Icap
- Kazakhmys
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Reuters Group
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
- Smiths Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- ANTOFAGASTA
- ENTERPRISE INNS
- PERSIMMON
PDF testing
17.0% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
45.24% |
| file/url/offtop None |
27.68% |
| file/url/badpath None |
14.62% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
3.45% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.72% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.42% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.28% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.16% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.04% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.62% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.26% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.20% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
15.64% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.90% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
6.50% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.95% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.81% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.42% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.72% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.15% |