FTSE League Table for January

OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was Morrisons (www.morrisons.co.uk). At the bottom of the table, representing the poorest site overall, was Diageo (www.diageo.com).
1.1 Website Function
 2 sites were error free this month, Morrisons (www.morrisons.co.uk) and Daily Mail and General Trust (www.dmgt.co.uk) and 25 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of error occurrences was Wolseley (www.wolseley.com) with over 9,000.
1.2 Website Compliance
 Accessibility – 7 sites scored 100% and 40 sites scored 90%+ looking at the automated Priority 1 (A) accessibility tests. 9 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance within the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Daily MAIL General Trust (www.dmgt.co.uk) with 4. Diageo (www.diageo.com) had the poorest HTML, with over 94,000 failures.

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 with the requirements.
1.3 Website Performance
 31 sites passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users home [56k] and ADSL [512k] access.
 The site with the fastest response time was BOC (www.boc.com); British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) had the slowest response time, and was 262 times slower than BOC.
The site with the fastest download speed was The Man Group PLC (www.mangroupplc.com); British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) had the slowest download speed and was 166 times slower than The Man Group PLC.


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