2011 Q2/Global Life Sciences
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
03 May 2011
- Total URLs tested:
63,794
- Total tests run:
20,856,212
- Total number of PDF's:
4,737
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.00%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.57%
- Pages missing a title:
4.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
45.18%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.43%
- Poorest code quality:
Helsinn Healthcare S.A. (http://www.helsinn.com/) - 20,209 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Newron (http://www.newron.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Newron | 0.02 | 4214.42 |
| BioPartners GmbH | 0.03 | 428.51 |
| Med Discovery S.A. | 0.04 | 375.35 |
| Pharmakon Ltd. | 0.04 | 167.21 |
| Gruenenthal Pharma AG | 0.05 | 313.42 |
| Aurora Pharma GmbH | 0.05 | 413.76 |
| Vifor (International) Ltd. | 0.05 | 635.60 |
| Tricom GmbH, Pharma Division | 0.06 | 426.36 |
| Lipideon Biotechnology AG | 0.06 | 860.49 |
| Sanofi-Aventis | 0.06 | 1952.08 |
| Pentapharm (DSM Nutritional Products AG) | 0.06 | 237.28 |
| GlycoVaxyn AG | 0.06 | 566.47 |
| Ergonex Pharma GmbH | 0.06 | 622.24 |
| 3-V Biosciences GmbH | 0.06 | 303.69 |
| Covagen AG | 0.06 | 478.57 |
| Novelty Pharma Galenical Development and Documentation | 0.06 | 251.75 |
| Helvepharm AG | 0.06 | 228.27 |
| Medena | 0.06 | 348.44 |
| Lumavita AG | 0.07 | 448.24 |
| Max Zeller Söhne AG | 0.07 | 775.54 |
| ESBATECH AG | 0.07 | 547.54 |
| LEO Pharmaceutical Products Sarath Ltd. | 0.07 | 191.56 |
| A. Menarini AG | 0.07 | 392.30 |
| Streuli Pharma AG | 0.07 | 119.97 |
| GKL Biotec AG | 0.08 | 326.54 |
| GeNeuro SA | 0.08 | 1002.50 |
| Addex Pharmaceuticals | 0.08 | 1222.83 |
| Cytos Biotechnology AG | 0.08 | 1063.79 |
| OMIDA AG | 0.08 | 604.29 |
| APR Applied Pharma Research s.a. | 0.08 | 203.65 |
| GenKyoTex SA | 0.08 | 473.96 |
| ArisGen SA | 0.08 | 778.11 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (CH) | 0.09 | 638.54 |
| 4-Antibody AG | 0.09 | 299.56 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb SA | 0.09 | 2548.57 |
| Auris Medical AG | 0.10 | 166.53 |
| Spirig Pharma AG | 0.10 | 346.04 |
| AC Immune SA | 0.10 | 993.17 |
| Actelion Ltd. | 0.10 | 1508.42 |
| Octapharma AG | 0.10 | 1002.86 |
| GlaxoSmithKline AG | 0.11 | 528.32 |
| Cilag AG | 0.11 | 609.97 |
| Nycomed International Management GmbH | 0.11 | 303.48 |
| Kenta Biotech AG | 0.11 | 391.17 |
| Lunamed AG | 0.12 | 149.88 |
| PFC Pharma Focus Switzerland | 0.12 | 81.50 |
| Mepha Pharma AG | 0.12 | 173.64 |
| Medinova AG | 0.12 | 322.70 |
| Debiopharm S.A. | 0.12 | 1029.13 |
| Axentis Pharma AG | 0.12 | 293.04 |
| Cryo-Save AG | 0.12 | 199.23 |
| AstraZeneca | 0.12 | 4340.08 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (Worldwide) | 0.12 | 2042.85 |
| Biogen Idec International GmbH | 0.13 | 285.68 |
| Takeda Pharma AG | 0.14 | 173.29 |
| Neurimmune Therapeutics AG | 0.14 | 659.96 |
| Schwabe Pharma AG | 0.14 | 699.20 |
| Nycomed Pharma AG | 0.14 | 550.30 |
| Tillotts Pharma AG | 0.14 | 462.64 |
| Siegfried AG | 0.15 | 1055.67 |
| Ferring International Center SA | 0.15 | 379.16 |
| Acino Holding AG | 0.15 | 1363.01 |
| Redbiotec AG | 0.16 | 725.11 |
| Novo Nordisk Pharma AG | 0.16 | 422.80 |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret AG | 0.17 | 59.12 |
| Solvay Pharma AG | 0.17 | 198.56 |
| Geistlich Pharma AG | 0.17 | 181.38 |
| PharmaSwiss SA - HQ | 0.18 | 238.58 |
| Genzyme GmbH | 0.18 | 66.86 |
| Novartis International AG | 0.18 | 228.98 |
| Molecular Partners | 0.18 | 194.17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 0.19 | 349.90 |
| Merck | 0.19 | 57.93 |
| Pfizer | 0.20 | 434.92 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Schweiz GmbH | 0.20 | 407.45 |
| Dr. Wild & Co. AG | 0.20 | 643.06 |
| Novartis Pharma Schweiz AG | 0.20 | 279.79 |
| Multipharma | 0.21 | 342.39 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 0.21 | 223.30 |
| Merz Pharma (Schweiz) AG | 0.21 | 136.23 |
| Galenica Ltd. | 0.22 | 1366.07 |
| MEDA Pharma GmbH | 0.23 | 316.05 |
| Anavex Life Sciences Corp. | 0.23 | 208.68 |
| Eli Lilly | 0.24 | 251.99 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | 0.24 | 65.83 |
| Teva Pharma AG | 0.25 | 670.05 |
| Permamed AG | 0.25 | 415.56 |
| Lundbeck (Schweiz) AG | 0.27 | 367.78 |
| Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development | 0.27 | 222.92 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 0.28 | 270.31 |
| Nitec Pharma AG | 0.28 | 53.81 |
| Mundipharma Medical Company | 0.28 | 354.99 |
| Evolva SA | 0.32 | 1227.53 |
| Arpida AG | 0.33 | 1231.61 |
| Merck Serono International SA | 0.33 | 628.25 |
| Galderma Pharma SA | 0.33 | 307.69 |
| mondoBIOTECH AG | 0.33 | 1313.33 |
| BioVersys GmbH | 0.34 | 203.40 |
| Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A. | 0.35 | 63.20 |
| Medipol SA | 0.36 | 822.35 |
| OM PHARMA | 0.37 | 75.55 |
| CSL Behring AG | 0.38 | 123.72 |
| Crucell | Berna Biotech Ltd | 0.39 | 785.77 |
| NovImmune | 0.42 | 120.54 |
| Virbac Schweiz AG | 0.43 | 468.11 |
| AmVac AG | 0.44 | 723.85 |
| Allergan AG | 0.49 | 168.95 |
| Bayer Schweiz AG | 0.51 | 318.77 |
| Neurotune | 0.52 | 473.39 |
| Kuros Biosurgery AG | 0.57 | 214.40 |
| Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. | 0.59 | 702.70 |
| Helsinn Healthcare S.A. | 0.64 | 452.73 |
| Antares Pharma AG | 0.65 | 269.77 |
| Baxter Switzerland | 0.77 | 19.38 |
| Pfizer (Switzerland) | 0.93 | 941.10 |
| Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AG | 0.97 | 1015.85 |
| AstraZeneca AG | 1.27 | 327.60 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Antares Pharma AG | 100.00 | 47.06 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (CH) | 100.00 | 36.80 |
| Cilag AG | 100.00 | 12.00 |
| Lunamed AG | 100.00 | 8.33 |
| Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Acino Holding AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Actelion Ltd. | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arpida AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| AstraZeneca | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| AstraZeneca AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| BioPartners GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| BioVersys GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Biogen Idec International GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Schweiz GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Covagen AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Evolva SA | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Galenica Ltd. | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kuros Biosurgery AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lumavita AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| MEDA Pharma GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Neurimmune Therapeutics AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Nycomed International Management GmbH | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| OMIDA AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tillotts Pharma AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tricom GmbH, Pharma Division | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Virbac Schweiz AG | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Addex Pharmaceuticals | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| AmVac AG | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Dr. Wild & Co. AG | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Medinova AG | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Nycomed Pharma AG | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| PharmaSwiss SA - HQ | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cytos Biotechnology AG | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Ferring International Center SA | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Siegfried AG | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Newron | 98.02 | 0.00 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (Worldwide) | 97.60 | 5.60 |
| Sanofi-Aventis | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Debiopharm S.A. | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Helvepharm AG | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Neurotune | 94.64 | 0.00 |
| 4-Antibody AG | 94.23 | 0.00 |
| Lundbeck (Schweiz) AG | 92.96 | 0.00 |
| Novartis International AG | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Axentis Pharma AG | 90.00 | 0.00 |
| Eli Lilly | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| CSL Behring AG | 86.84 | 0.00 |
| LEO Pharmaceutical Products Sarath Ltd. | 83.61 | 0.00 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Allergan AG | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Merz Pharma (Schweiz) AG | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Octapharma AG | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Crucell | Berna Biotech Ltd | 73.33 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Streuli Pharma AG | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb SA | 46.15 | 0.00 |
| Medipol SA | 45.24 | 26.19 |
| Pentapharm (DSM Nutritional Products AG) | 40.96 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32.80 | 0.00 |
| Anavex Life Sciences Corp. | 31.20 | 24.00 |
| Lipideon Biotechnology AG | 30.00 | 0.00 |
| Baxter Switzerland | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| Multipharma | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Gruenenthal Pharma AG | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| NovImmune | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Max Zeller Söhne AG | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 20.00 | 0.80 |
| Merck Serono International SA | 19.20 | 15.20 |
| Aurora Pharma GmbH | 10.71 | 0.00 |
| Pharmakon Ltd. | 10.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirig Pharma AG | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Redbiotec AG | 8.82 | 0.00 |
| Solvay Pharma AG | 8.70 | 0.00 |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret AG | 8.62 | 0.00 |
| A. Menarini AG | 8.00 | 4.00 |
| AC Immune SA | 7.69 | 0.00 |
| Novartis Pharma Schweiz AG | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Galderma Pharma SA | 4.31 | 1.72 |
| Geistlich Pharma AG | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Mepha Pharma AG | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Helsinn Healthcare S.A. | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Bayer Schweiz AG | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Merck | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Teva Pharma AG | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Cryo-Save AG | 1.98 | 0.00 |
| Auris Medical AG | 1.80 | 0.00 |
| Mundipharma Medical Company | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Permamed AG | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Medena | 1.08 | 0.00 |
| GlaxoSmithKline AG | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Nitec Pharma AG | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| PFC Pharma Focus Switzerland | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Schwabe Pharma AG | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| 3-V Biosciences GmbH | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| APR Applied Pharma Research s.a. | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ArisGen SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ESBATECH AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ergonex Pharma GmbH | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| GKL Biotec AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| GeNeuro SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| GenKyoTex SA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Genzyme GmbH | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| GlycoVaxyn AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kenta Biotech AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Med Discovery S.A. | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Molecular Partners | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A. | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Novelty Pharma Galenical Development and Documentation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Novo Nordisk Pharma AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OM PHARMA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer (Switzerland) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Takeda Pharma AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Vifor (International) Ltd. | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| mondoBIOTECH AG | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- 4-Antibody AG
- ArisGen SA
- Axentis Pharma AG
- Cilag AG
- GlaxoSmithKline AG
- Kuros Biosurgery AG
- Lumavita AG
- Lunamed AG
- Med Discovery S.A.
- Molecular Partners
- Mundipharma Medical Company
- Newron
- Pentapharm (DSM Nutritional Products AG)
- Pharmakon Ltd.
- Siegfried AG
- Solvay Pharma AG
- Takeda Pharma AG
- Tricom GmbH, Pharma Division
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- 3-V Biosciences GmbH
- APR Applied Pharma Research s.a.
- ArisGen SA
- Ergonex Pharma GmbH
- ESBATECH AG
- GeNeuro SA
- GenKyoTex SA
- Genzyme GmbH
- GKL Biotec AG
- GlycoVaxyn AG
- Kenta Biotech AG
- Med Discovery S.A.
- Molecular Partners
- mondoBIOTECH AG
- Neurim Pharmaceuticals S.A.
- Novelty Pharma Galenical Development and Documentation
- Novo Nordisk Pharma AG
- OM PHARMA
- Pfizer (Switzerland)
- Takeda Pharma AG
- Vifor (International) Ltd.
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AG
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Abbott AG
- Alpex Pharma SA
- AMGEN Switzerland AG
- Anergis
- Axenoll AG
- Dybly
- IBSA
- Janssen-Cilag
- Eli Lilly Schweiz
- Robapharm AG
PDF testing
26.6% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
60.34% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
19.39% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
9.15% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
6.03% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.25% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.25% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.20% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.52% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.31% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.16% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
32.35% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
18.75% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
12.16% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
11.74% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.07% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.13% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
2.76% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.74% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.26% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
0.99% |