Universities Qtr 2 2012

Error free sites

  • LCA Business School, London
  • North East Worcestershire College
  • Northbrook College Sussex
  • Walsall College

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Leicester College
  • Newcastle College
  • St Mary's University College, Twickenham
  • Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

Excluded from index

  • Highbury College

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 Apr 2012
Total URLs tested: 565,778
Total tests run: 184,266,082
Total number of PDF's: 14,932
URLs failing functional tests: 3.36
Pages failing code standards: 81.86
Pages missing a title: 1.63
Pages failing accessibility level A: 28.27
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 28.27
Poorest code quality: New College Stamford (http://www.stamford.ac.uk/) - 145,804 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.

39.4% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/notfound 44.02%
url/fetch/badcookie 15.69%
file/image/badtype 13.41%
url/fetch/noaddr 7.41%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 7.01%
url/fetch/timeout 4.68%
url/fetch/accessdenied 4.24%
url/fetch/badscheme 1.03%
url/fetch/noeoh 0.78%
url/fetch/exception 0.46%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/tagnotallowed 19.83%
file/html/missingclose 17.91%
file/html/badentity 15.06%
file/html/unknownentity 14.93%
file/html/badattr 9.80%
file/html/badvalue 8.75%
file/image/size 2.64%
file/html/missingattr 2.20%
file/html/unknowntag 1.97%
url/fetch/moved 1.71%

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