2010 Q3/Global Life Sciences



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    24 Aug 2010

  • Total URLs tested:

    38,532

  • Total tests run:

    12,621,726

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,801

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.11%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    84.81%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.49%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    50.45%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.57%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Helsinn Healthcare S.A. (http://www.helsinn.com/) - 21,059 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 Switzerland100.0047.20
Antares Pharma AG100.0043.20
Lunamed AG100.008.33
Actelion Ltd.100.000.00
AmVac AG100.000.00
Arpida AG100.000.00
BioPartners GmbH100.000.00
BioVersys GmbH100.000.00
Biogen Idec Internat​ional GmbH100.000.00
Covagen AG100.000.00
Evolva SA100.000.00
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
F. Hoffmann-La Roche​ AG Global99.2012.00
Basilea Pharmaceutic​a Ltd.99.208.80
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
Newron97.870.00
Helvepharm AG96.800.00
Axenoll AG94.810.00
4-Antibody AG94.740.00
CSL Behring AG87.840.00
Neurotune85.710.00
Novartis Internation​al AG84.000.00
Crucell | Berna Biot​ech Ltd73.330.00
Axentis Pharma AG63.640.00
Nycomed Pharma AG60.000.00
Streuli Pharma AG56.800.00
Medipol SA45.2428.57
Octapharma AG32.800.00
Anavex Life Sciences​ Corp.32.3821.90
Baxter Switzerland31.200.00
Merck Serono Interna​tional SA31.200.00
Lipideon Biotechnolo​gy AG30.000.00
Multipharma SA Luxem​bourg25.710.00
NovImmune23.200.00
Max Zeller Söhne AG​22.400.00
Bayer Schweiz AG20.000.00
Spirig Pharma AG11.200.00
Redbiotec AG8.820.00
Solvay Pharma AG8.700.00
AC Immune SA7.890.00
Merck Sharp &​ Dohme-Chibret AG7.500.00
PharmaSwiss SA - HQ7.140.00
Aurora Pharma GmbH6.490.00
Auris Medical AG5.260.00
Novartis Pharma Schw​eiz AG4.800.00
Med Discovery S.A.3.120.00
Helsinn Healthcare S​.A.3.080.00
AstraZeneca AG2.400.00
Mepha Pharma AG2.400.00
Cryo-Save AG2.110.00
Mundipharma Medical ​Company1.600.00
Permamed AG1.600.00
Gruenenthal Pharma A​G1.330.00
Medena AG1.090.00
Debiopharm S.A.0.800.80
Schwabe Pharma AG0.800.00
3-V Biosciences GmbH​0.000.00
APR Applied Pharma R​esearch s.a.0.000.00
Alpex Pharma SA0.000.00
ArisGen SA0.000.00
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
Kenta Biotech AG0.000.00
Molecular Partners A​G0.000.00
Neurim Pharmaceutica​ls S.A.0.000.00
Nitec Pharma AG0.000.00
Novelty Pharma GDD S​A0.000.00
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
  • ArisGen SA
  • Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
  • Kuros Biosurgery AG
  • Lunamed AG
  • Med Discovery S.A.
  • Medinova AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • Mundipharma Medical Company
  • 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
  • APR Applied Pharma Research s.a.
  • ArisGen SA
  • Ergonex Pharma GmbH
  • ESBATECH AG
  • GeNeuro SA
  • GenKyoTex SA
  • GKL Biotec AG
  • GlycoVaxyn AG
  • Kenta Biotech AG
  • Molecular Partners AG
  • mondoBIOTECH AG
  • Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A.
  • Nitec Pharma AG
  • Novelty Pharma GDD SA
  • 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
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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
78.57%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
7.88%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
4.80%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.46%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.97%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.72%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
0.99%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
0.86%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.37%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.25%
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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
32.22%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
21.86%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
9.98%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
9.80%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.48%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.86%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.87%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.77%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.74%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.87%