2016 Q2/American Airlines

INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
07 Apr 2016
- Total URLs tested:
40,345
- Total tests run:
13,120,367
- Total number of PDF's:
317
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.32%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.34%
- Pages missing a title:
5.63%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
35.56%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.51%
- Poorest code quality:
Alaska Airlines (http://www.alaskaair.com/) - 28,610 failures
- Fastest average response time:
JetBlue Airways (http://www.jetblue.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) |
---|---|---|
JetBlue Airways | 0.07 | 840.41 |
WestJet | 0.10 | 224.45 |
Delta Airlines | 0.10 | 680.06 |
Air Canada | 0.13 | 336.14 |
US Airways | 0.16 | 242.54 |
Spirit Airlines | 0.20 | 152.68 |
American Airlines | 0.21 | 209.69 |
Southwest Airlines | 0.21 | 315.07 |
Aeromexico | 0.22 | 385.20 |
Republic Airways | 0.22 | 274.21 |
Pen Air | 0.22 | 266.35 |
Silver Airways | 0.26 | 314.45 |
Alaska Airlines | 0.27 | 169.42 |
Sun Country Airlines | 0.28 | 220.58 |
Allegiant Aire | 0.30 | 587.04 |
United Airlines | 0.35 | 383.95 |
Mesa Airlines | 0.37 | 860.68 |
SkyWest Airlines | 0.41 | 504.34 |
Hawaiian Airlines | 0.43 | 218.81 |
Ravn Alaska | 0.61 | 240.82 |
Express Jet | 0.62 | 470.08 |
Frontier Airlines | 0.66 | 302.46 |
Island Air | 0.88 | 536.94 |
Organisation | A | AA |
---|---|---|
Alaska Airlines | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Ravn Alaska | 98.75 | 0.00 |
Spirit Airlines | 98.48 | 6.06 |
Allegiant Aire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Hawaiian Airlines | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Republic Airways | 96.46 | 0.00 |
Delta Airlines | 96.00 | 0.80 |
Frontier Airlines | 94.40 | 0.80 |
Air Canada | 93.60 | 0.00 |
United Airlines | 92.80 | 0.00 |
Pen Air | 88.46 | 0.00 |
Southwest Airlines | 72.00 | 0.00 |
Express Jet | 69.60 | 0.00 |
Sun Country Airlines | 64.00 | 2.40 |
WestJet | 63.20 | 0.80 |
SkyWest Airlines | 57.60 | 0.00 |
JetBlue Airways | 53.60 | 0.00 |
Aeromexico | 20.80 | 0.80 |
American Airlines | 18.40 | 0.00 |
US Airways | 18.40 | 0.00 |
Silver Airways | 4.00 | 0.80 |
Island Air | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Mesa Airlines | 0.00 | 0.00 |

Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Island Air
- Mesa Airlines

Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Great Lakes Airlines
- Virgin America

PDF testing
58.4% 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.
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
70.44% |
url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
7.90% |
file/image/badtype Image file has incorrect type |
5.66% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
4.06% |
url/fetch/errorstatus Error status code received from web server |
3.31% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.20% |
url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.60% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.49% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.96% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.43% |

Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.02% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
24.33% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
19.52% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.29% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
5.78% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.08% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.21% |
url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
2.21% |
file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.42% |
file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
1.02% |