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FTSE 100 October 2006

Error free sites

  • British American Tobacco
  • Centrica
  • International Power
  • Sainsbury(J)

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Astrazeneca
  • Carnival
  • Corus Group
  • ICAP
  • Kazakhmys
  • Reckitt Benckiser
  • British Sky Broadcasting Group

Excluded from index

  • Antofagasta
  • Enterprise Inns
  • Persimmon

Index facts

Sites tested: 20 Oct 2006
Total URLs tested: 48,614
Total tests run: 15,837,042
Total number of PDF's: 1,442
URLs failing functional tests: 4.76
Pages failing code standards: 74.43
Pages missing a title: 1.46
Pages failing accessibility level A: 26.43
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 26.43
Poorest code quality: Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 62,707 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Next (http://www.next.co.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

19.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 37.48%
file/url/offtop 30.76%
file/url/badpath 17.70%
url/fetch/notfound 4.00%
file/html/longmeta 2.03%
file/html/notitle 1.52%
url/mail/exception 1.31%
url/fetch/badcookie 1.28%
file/html/badmeta 1.14%
url/fetch/noaddr 0.75%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 26.18%
file/html/unknownentity 24.81%
file/html/badattr 15.75%
file/html/tagnotallowed 12.76%
file/html/unknowntag 8.38%
file/html/badvalue 4.74%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 2.36%
file/html/closingunopened 2.16%
file/html/missingclose 1.46%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.93%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford