2006 Q3/FTSE 250
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
17 Oct 2006
- Total URLs tested:
95,789
- Total tests run:
31,263,349
- Total number of PDF's:
5,074
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.55%
- Pages failing code standards:
80.62%
- Pages missing a title:
4.38%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
48.68%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
97.42%
- Poorest code quality:
888 Holdings (WI) (http://www.888.com/) - 111,984 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Alliance Trusts (http://www.alliancetrusts.com/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail & General Trust | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Northumbrian Water Group | 100.00 | 82.17 |
| Venture Production | 100.00 | 19.69 |
| Dana Petroleum | 100.00 | 16.95 |
| Enodis | 100.00 | 12.70 |
| Rightmove | 100.00 | 11.02 |
| Electra Investment Trust | 100.00 | 6.06 |
| Homeserve PLC | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| Great Portland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Michael Page International | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Arriva | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Biffa | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Britvic | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Catlin Group LD Coms | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dairy Crest Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Davis Service Group PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMAP | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| EMI Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GKN | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IG Group HDGS | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| London Merchant Secs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Foods | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redrow Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| SVG Capital | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Serco Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Signet Group plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stagecoach Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Electronic Holdings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| United Businees Media | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wellington Underwriting | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Group UTS | 99.22 | 28.68 |
| JJB Sports | 99.22 | 2.33 |
| Cookson Group | 99.21 | 2.38 |
| Amlin | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Arm Holdings | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| BBA Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| FKI | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Halfords Group | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| National Express | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Mortgage & Trust | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Colt Telecom Group | 99.17 | 0.00 |
| Bunzl | 99.11 | 0.00 |
| Viridian Group | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Baillie Gifford | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Mitchells & Butlers PLC | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Rentokil Initial | 98.41 | 90.48 |
| Rank Group | 98.40 | 7.20 |
| Go-Ahead Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Laird Group | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Rathbones | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Alliance Trusts | 97.96 | 0.00 |
| AMEC | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Burren Energy | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Perpetual Inc & Grwth IT | 97.44 | 0.00 |
| WH Smith | 97.30 | 1.80 |
| Aberdeen Asset Management | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| RHM | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Halma PLC | 96.83 | 12.70 |
| William Hill | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Kier Group | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Abbot Group | 96.74 | 2.17 |
| British Empire Securities | 96.67 | 3.33 |
| Edinburgh US Tracker | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Premier Farnell | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Ladbrokes | 96.00 | 36.00 |
| F&C Commercial | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Informa PLC | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Inmarsat PLC | 95.00 | 0.00 |
| HMV Group | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Shanks Group | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Wimpey (George) | 93.80 | 34.88 |
| Bankers Investment Trust | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Chemring Group | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Derwent Valley | 92.38 | 0.00 |
| First Choice Holidays | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Merchants Trust | 91.15 | 0.00 |
| Wolverhampton&Dudley Breweries | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Unite Group | 89.19 | 0.00 |
| Luminar | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Tomkins | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Mouchel Parkman | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Murray Income Tr | 87.04 | 0.00 |
| Murray Intern Tr | 87.04 | 0.00 |
| MFI Furniture Group | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Spectris | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Schroders PLC | 85.16 | 3.91 |
| British Assets Trust PLC | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Misys | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Findel | 85.00 | 0.00 |
| F&C Asset Management | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson | 84.13 | 3.17 |
| Petrofac Ltd | 82.95 | 0.00 |
| Investec | 82.81 | 0.00 |
| Computacenter | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Investment Trust | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Whitbread PLC | 79.53 | 0.00 |
| Northgate | 78.74 | 0.00 |
| Laing | 78.57 | 6.35 |
| Witan Investment Trust | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Travis Perkins | 77.05 | 0.00 |
| Tullow Oil | 76.38 | 0.00 |
| Marshalls PLC | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Avis Europe | 75.19 | 0.00 |
| RIT Capital Partners | 73.53 | 0.00 |
| Paragon Group | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Matalan | 69.84 | 0.00 |
| JD Wetherspoons | 67.46 | 0.00 |
| McCarthy & Stone | 67.20 | 0.00 |
| Charter PLC (Regd) | 63.28 | 0.00 |
| Balfour Beatty | 62.20 | 0.00 |
| Sthree | 62.12 | 62.12 |
| Speedy Hire | 55.91 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Woodrow | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| Admiral Group | 45.78 | 0.00 |
| Debenhams | 44.19 | 0.00 |
| CSR | 42.86 | 0.00 |
| AWG | 42.64 | 0.00 |
| Wood Group (John) | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Minerva | 38.10 | 0.00 |
| Easyjet PLC | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Sindall | 37.30 | 0.00 |
| Expro International Group | 34.13 | 0.00 |
| Trinity Mirror | 33.59 | 0.00 |
| Big Yellow Group | 33.33 | 0.00 |
| Collins Stewart Tullett Prebon | 32.48 | 0.00 |
| Johnston Press | 31.46 | 0.00 |
| Workspace Group | 27.56 | 0.79 |
| The Carphone Warehouse | 25.78 | 0.00 |
| Brixton Estate | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Electrocomponents | 25.30 | 15.66 |
| Greggs | 24.81 | 0.00 |
| Helphire Group | 24.64 | 0.00 |
| St James' Place Capital | 24.41 | 0.00 |
| Pennon Group | 23.02 | 0.00 |
| Bellway | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Cobham | 17.32 | 0.00 |
| Stanley Leisure PLC | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Cable & Wireless | 15.75 | 14.17 |
| Bovis Homes Group | 15.50 | 0.00 |
| Aberforth Smaller Co Tr | 15.38 | 0.00 |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 14.71 | 0.00 |
| Forth Ports | 14.29 | 0.00 |
| Kesa Electricals | 14.06 | 0.00 |
| St.Modwen Properties | 12.40 | 0.00 |
| FirstGroup | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| McAlpine (ALF.) | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Inchcape | 10.08 | 0.00 |
| Victrex | 9.38 | 0.78 |
| 888 Holdings (WI) | 8.53 | 0.78 |
| Soco Intl Plc | 7.81 | 0.00 |
| Filtrona | 7.75 | 0.00 |
| Paypoint | 7.26 | 0.00 |
| IMI Group | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Hiscox Insurance | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Aggreko | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Mytravel Group | 6.20 | 0.00 |
| Babcock International Group | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Logica CMG | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Autonomy | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Dimension Data | 5.43 | 0.00 |
| Shaftesbury | 5.26 | 0.00 |
| Photo-Me International | 5.04 | 0.00 |
| Savills | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Aquarius Platinum | 4.60 | 0.00 |
| Rotork | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Punch Taverns | 3.88 | 0.00 |
| Dexion Absolute | 3.85 | 0.00 |
| PZ Cussons | 3.80 | 0.00 |
| Gyrus Group | 3.33 | 0.00 |
| London Stock Exchange | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| SIG | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Intertek Group | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Grainger Tst | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| RPS Group | 2.33 | 0.00 |
| Mapeley | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Renishaw | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Hunting | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Beazley Group | 1.52 | 0.00 |
| Wilson Bowden | 1.16 | 0.00 |
| Brown (N.) Group | 0.96 | 0.00 |
| SSL International | 0.83 | 0.00 |
| Benfield Group | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Candover Investments | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Meggitt | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Premier Foods | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Wolfson Microelectronics PLC | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Franklin Templeton Investments | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Atkins (WS) | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Premier Oil | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Topps Tiles PLC | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| AGA Foodservice Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ashtead Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| BSS Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Barratt Developments | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bodycote International PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| CLS Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Capital & Regional PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Carpetright | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Close Premium Finance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Countrywide | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Croda International | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gondola Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Greene King PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Group 4 Securicor | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hays | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Henderson Global Investors | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Insight Investment Management | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Intermediate Capital Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invensys | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| JKX Oil & Gas | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kensington Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MITIE Group PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch World Mining Tst | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millennium & Copthorne Hotels | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Crucible Co PLC | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northgate Information Solution | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendragon | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Provident Financial | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Qinetiq | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quintain Estates & Development | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Randgold Resources Ld | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Regus Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smiths (DS) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spirent | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Taylor Nelson Sofres | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| VT Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Weir Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Welcome Financial Services | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whatman | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Woolworths | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberforth Smaller Co Tr
- Amlin
- Carpetright
- Dana Petroleum
- Easyjet PLC
- Electra Investment Trust
- IG Group HDGS
- Premier Oil
- RHM
- Scottish Investment Trust
- Venture Production
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- AGA Foodservice Group
- Ashtead Group
- Barratt Developments
- Bodycote International PLC
- BSS Group
- Capital & Regional PLC
- Carpetright
- Welcome Financial Services
- Close Premium Finance
- CLS Holdings
- Countrywide
- Croda International
- Smiths (DS)
- Gondola Holdings
- Greene King PLC
- Group 4 Securicor
- Hays
- Henderson Global Investors
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Insight Investment Management
- Invensys
- JKX Oil & Gas
- Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
- MITIE Group PLC
- Merrill Lynch World Mining Tst
- Morgan Crucible Co PLC
- Northgate Information Solution
- Pendragon
- Provident Financial
- Qinetiq
- Quintain Estates & Development
- Randgold Resources Ld
- Regus Group
- Southern Cross Healthcare
- Spirent
- Taylor Nelson Sofres
- VT Group
- Weir Group
- Whatman
- Woolworths
- Kensington Group
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Aegis Group
- Burberry
- Caledonia Investments PLC
- Carillion PLC
- Restaurant Group
- Crest Nicholson
- De La Rue
- Fidelity Investments
- Headlam Group
- JPMorgan Growth
- JP Morgan Fleming Jap IT
- JP Morgan Fleming Mercantile
PDF testing
16.3% 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 |
85.92% |
| file/url/offtop None |
6.40% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.91% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.34% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.24% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
0.60% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.45% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
0.43% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.40% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.34% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
29.43% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
26.28% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
11.08% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.58% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
7.25% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.60% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
5.02% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.72% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.94% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.44% |