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Universities Qtr 1 2012

Error free sites

  • LCA Business School, London
  • Newcastle College
  • Northbrook College Sussex
  • Northumberland College
  • Norwich University College Of The Arts
  • Walsall College

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Birmingham Metropolitan College (Formerly Matthew Boulton College)
  • Newcastle College
  • Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
  • SAE Institute
  • St Mary's University College, Twickenham
  • Westminster Kingsway College
  • Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

Excluded from index

  • Highbury College

Index facts

Sites tested: 04 Jan 2012
Total URLs tested: 576,105
Total tests run: 187,599,815
Total number of PDF's: 14,065
URLs failing functional tests: 3.02
Pages failing code standards: 83.90
Pages missing a title: 1.81
Pages failing accessibility level A: 28.48
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 28.48
Poorest code quality: New College Stamford (http://www.stamford.ac.uk/) - 111,562 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.

37.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/notfound 49.28%
url/fetch/badcookie 22.11%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 7.10%
url/fetch/noaddr 6.62%
url/fetch/timeout 5.96%
url/fetch/accessdenied 4.61%
url/fetch/noeoh 1.14%
url/fetch/redirectloop 1.09%
url/fetch/badscheme 0.99%
url/fetch/exception 0.64%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/missingclose 26.32%
file/html/tagnotallowed 18.66%
file/html/badentity 11.08%
file/html/unknownentity 10.94%
file/html/badvalue 9.35%
file/html/badattr 7.38%
file/html/unknowntag 6.90%
file/html/missingattr 2.66%
url/fetch/moved 1.68%
file/html/closingunopened 1.42%