Insurance / Assurance and related Companies - Report and ranking

21 Jan 2004

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Top of the league and best site overall was EA Gibson Limited, in second place GLG Partners LP. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was The St. Paul Companies.

21 sites are error. 70 sites had less than 10 errors. The site with the highest number of errors was Lloyds with over 17,000 errors. [total sites tested 134]

2 sites that had over 1,000 errors.

60 sites tested passed basic metadata test for their front page.

61 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download [results down from last month], simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb].

Site with the lowest number of warnings was Cardales and Insurance Market Solutions with 0, the first sites to achieve 100% HTML standards compliance. The Association of British Insurers had the highest number of warnings, with over 74,000.

Site with fastest overall server response was Dawnay, Day, with an average page response was 0.058 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was The St. Paul Companies where average page response was over 18 seconds per page.

Site with highest download speed was EA Gibson Limited; The St. Paul Companies had the slowest download speed of sites tested.


Accessibility testing
- 49 sites passed all accessibility rests;
= 77 of the sites achieved a greater than 90% compliance
- 10 sites scored under 10%
- 3 sites had no pages compliant.

The tests completed address a number of the requirements for the mandatory priorities 1 only.

The results of the accessibility testing currently do not affect the overall ratings or rankings for the league tables contained in this report. The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance to the requirements.