2010 Q2/Global Life Sciences



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    21 Jun 2010

  • Total URLs tested:

    35,708

  • Total tests run:

    11,698,492

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,592

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.11%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    84.63%

  • Pages missing a title:

    4.86%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    48.74%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.83%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Helsinn Healthcare S.A. (http://www.helsinn.com/) - 21,058 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Newron (http://www.newron.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
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Switzerland100.0043.20
Antares Pharma AG100.0012.00
Lunamed AG100.008.33
Basilea Pharmaceutic​a Ltd.100.007.20
Arpida AG100.000.80
Evolva SA100.000.80
BioPartners GmbH100.000.00
BioVersys GmbH100.000.00
Covagen AG100.000.00
Galenica Ltd.100.000.00
Johnson &​ Johnson Pharmaceuti​cal Research &​ Development100.000.00
Kuros Biosurgery AG100.000.00
Neurimmune Therapeut​ics AG100.000.00
Nycomed Internationa​l Management GmbH100.000.00
OMIDA AG100.000.00
Tricom GmbH, Pharma ​Division100.000.00
Valeant Pharmaceutic​als Switzerland GmbH​100.000.00
AmVac AG99.200.00
Ferring Internationa​l Center SA99.200.00
Medinova AG99.200.00
Addex Pharmaceutical​s98.400.00
Cytos Biotechnology ​AG98.400.00
Siegfried AG98.400.00
Biogen Idec Internat​ional GmbH98.330.00
Newron97.890.00
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Global97.6024.00
Helvepharm AG96.800.00
Axenoll AG94.810.00
4-Antibody AG94.740.00
Lipideon Biotechnolo​gy AG90.000.00
CSL Behring AG87.500.00
Neurotune85.710.00
Novartis Internation​al AG84.800.00
Crucell | Berna Biot​ech Ltd73.330.00
Med Discovery S.A.65.600.00
Axentis Pharma AG63.640.00
Nycomed Pharma AG60.000.00
Streuli Pharma AG56.800.00
Medipol SA45.2430.95
Anavex Life Sciences​ Corp.32.3521.57
Baxter Switzerland32.000.00
Merck Serono Interna​tional SA31.200.00
Octapharma AG31.200.00
NovImmune28.000.00
Aurora Pharma GmbH23.910.00
Max Zeller Söhne AG​22.400.00
Bayer Schweiz AG20.000.00
Spirig Pharma AG10.400.00
Solvay Pharma AG8.700.00
AC Immune SA7.890.00
Merck Sharp &​ Dohme-Chibret AG7.630.00
PharmaSwiss SA - HQ7.140.00
Actelion Ltd.4.800.00
Novartis Pharma Schw​eiz AG4.800.00
AstraZeneca AG3.200.00
Helsinn Healthcare S​.A.3.080.00
Mepha Pharma AG2.400.00
Cryo-Save AG2.150.00
Permamed AG1.600.00
Debiopharm S.A.0.800.80
Schwabe Pharma AG0.800.00
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
GeNeuro SA0.000.00
GenKyoTex SA0.000.00
GlycoVaxyn AG0.000.00
Gruenenthal Pharma A​G0.000.00
Kenta Biotech AG0.000.00
Molecular Partners A​G0.000.00
Neurim Pharmaceutica​ls S.A.0.000.00
Nitec Pharma AG0.000.00
Novo Nordisk Pharma ​AG0.000.00
OM PHARMA0.000.00
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
  • Antares Pharma AG
  • ArisGen SA
  • Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
  • Kuros Biosurgery AG
  • Lipideon Biotechnology AG
  • Lunamed AG
  • Med Discovery S.A.
  • Medinova AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • Neurimmune Therapeutics AG
  • Newron
  • Nycomed International Management GmbH
  • 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
  • GeNeuro SA
  • GenKyoTex SA
  • GKL Biotec AG
  • GlycoVaxyn AG
  • Gruenenthal Pharma AG
  • Kenta Biotech AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • mondoBIOTECH AG
  • Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A.
  • Nitec Pharma AG
  • Novo Nordisk Pharma AG
  • OM PHARMA
  • 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
  • Pfizer AG
  • Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AG
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PDF testing

24.3% 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
76.73%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
8.38%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
4.79%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
3.19%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.13%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.73%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.46%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
0.93%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.40%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.13%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
29.16%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
17.27%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
13.53%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
13.19%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.36%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.18%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.37%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.79%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.90%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.77%