October 2006/FTSE 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
23 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 accessibility level AA:
94.86%
- Poorest code quality:
Lonmin (http://www.lonmin.com/) - 62,707 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Next (http://www.next.co.uk/)
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 | 96.06 |
| Land Securities | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| Alliance Boots | 100.00 | 51.94 |
| Sainsbury(J) | 100.00 | 16.67 |
| British American Tobacco | 100.00 | 6.25 |
| 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 |
| Experian Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Friends Provident | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammerson | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Retail Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kingfisher | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB Group | 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 |
| ITV | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Holdings plc | 99.21 | 3.15 |
| BT Group | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Severn Trent | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Wolseley | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| National Grid | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Unilever | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Legal & General | 98.41 | 64.29 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | 98.41 | 5.56 |
| British Airways | 98.41 | 3.97 |
| Smith & Nephew | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| British Land | 98.40 | 27.20 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Anglo American | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| British Energy Group | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Prudential | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Brambles Industries | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Bg Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Gallaher Group | 96.03 | 0.79 |
| Kelda Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Scottish & Newcastle | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Shire | 95.31 | 1.56 |
| Halifax Bank Of Scotland Group | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Power | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Glaxosmithkline | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| BP | 94.49 | 11.81 |
| International Power | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Tesco | 94.44 | 8.73 |
| Hanson | 94.44 | 0.79 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 94.40 | 4.80 |
| Sabmiller | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Reed Elsevier | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Diageo | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Royal & Sun Alliance Ins Group | 90.62 | 0.00 |
| 3I Group | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Resolution | 88.80 | 7.20 |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Pearson | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets | 83.59 | 0.00 |
| Associated British Foods | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Xstrata | 74.60 | 6.35 |
| Liberty International | 65.87 | 0.00 |
| Standard Chartered Bank | 63.28 | 0.00 |
| Compass Group | 60.32 | 0.00 |
| Northern Rock | 57.48 | 33.07 |
| Barclays Group | 56.35 | 27.78 |
| Amvescap | 54.05 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 52.76 | 0.00 |
| Tate & Lyle | 25.78 | 0.00 |
| BAE Systems | 25.40 | 0.00 |
| Cairn Energy | 24.60 | 0.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 20.80 | 20.80 |
| Vedanta Resources | 8.62 | 1.72 |
| DSG International | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| Rolls-Royce Group | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Matthey | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Slough Estates | 1.60 | 12.00 |
| Reuters Group | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Man Group | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Smiths Group | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Imperial Chemical Industries | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Wpp Group | 0.79 | 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 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- British American Tobacco
- Centrica
- International Power
- Sainsbury(J)
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Astrazeneca
- Carnival
- Corus Group
- ICAP
- Kazakhmys
- Reckitt Benckiser
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Antofagasta
- Enterprise Inns
- Persimmon
PDF testing
19.6% 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.
| file/url/badquery None |
37.48% |
| file/url/offtop None |
30.76% |
| file/url/badpath None |
17.70% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
4.00% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.03% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.52% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
1.31% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.28% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.14% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.75% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.18% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
24.81% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
15.75% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.76% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
8.38% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.74% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.36% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.16% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.46% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.93% |