Universities Qtr 4 2011

Error free sites

  • LCA Business School, London
  • Newcastle College
  • Northumberland College
  • Walsall College

Failing A & AA on every page

  • City College Coventry
  • Kensington College of Business
  • London School of Science and Technology
  • Birmingham Metropolitan College (Formerly Matthew Boulton College)
  • Royal Academy of Dance
  • Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
  • SAE Institute
  • Westminster Kingsway College
  • University of Westminster

Excluded from index

  • Highbury College

Index facts

Sites tested: 05 Oct 2011
Total URLs tested: 552,440
Total tests run: 179,903,724
Total number of PDF's: 13,874
URLs failing functional tests: 3.10
Pages failing code standards: 83.36
Pages missing a title: 1.75
Pages failing accessibility level A: 26.33
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 26.33
Poorest code quality: New College Stamford (http://www.stamford.ac.uk/) - 67,064 failures
Fastest overall average response time: The University of West London (http://www.uwl.ac.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.

34.7% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/notfound 48.49%
url/fetch/badcookie 25.27%
url/fetch/noaddr 7.53%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 5.76%
url/fetch/timeout 5.64%
url/fetch/accessdenied 4.09%
url/fetch/badscheme 1.13%
url/fetch/noeoh 0.93%
url/fetch/exception 0.48%
url/fetch/connref 0.29%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/missingclose 26.47%
file/html/tagnotallowed 20.78%
file/html/badentity 11.46%
file/html/unknownentity 11.32%
file/html/badvalue 9.04%
file/html/badattr 7.28%
file/html/unknowntag 3.97%
file/html/missingattr 2.52%
url/fetch/moved 1.62%
file/html/closingunopened 1.56%

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