Feb '04 FTSE100 Sites Ranking-Top Next, Bottom BT - 8 sites pass accessibility

25 Mar 2004

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Top of the league and best site overall was Next plc, in second place Alliance Unichem plc. For the 3rd report running at the bottom of the table was BT plc.

- 2 sites had no errors Liberty International and Hanson plc, with 38 having 10 or less – not as good as last report.
- 3 sites site had over 1,000 errors in this test, 25 sites had over 100 errors – not as good as last report.
- 45 sites tested passed basic meta data test for their front page – more than last time.
- 26 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download, simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb], last report had 25 sites passing.
- Site with the lowest number of warnings [poor html] was again Severn Trent; again Dixons.co.uk had the highest number of warnings, with over 130,000.
- Site with fastest overall server response was Morrisons plc, with an average page response of 0.04 seconds. The site with the slowest response time again was Schroders plc where average page response was over 10 seconds per page.
- Site with highest download speed was Next plc, and BT plc again had the slowest download speed of sites tested again [BT also the second slowest for server response].

 

Accessibility testing
- 8 sites achieved 100% compliance; HSBC, GKN PLC, GUS PLC, Friends Provident, Alliance Unichem, ITV, BP & Riotinto
- 12 of the sites achieved a greater than 90% [but not 100%] compliance
- 26 sites scored between 25% and 90% compliance for the pages tested
- 9 sites scored between 10% and 25% compliance for the pages tested
- 45 sites were less than 10% compliant, 8 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.

Tests were completed between the 24th and 26th of February 2004.