FTSE League Table for November

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS

Top of the league and best site overall was Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (www.dmgt.co.uk), in second place was Next (www.next.co.uk).At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Reuters (www.reuters.com).

1.1 Website Function
 2 sites were error free this month, these included Next and Wolseley. 37% of sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was British American Tobacco with over 6713.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML - The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Daily Mail and General Trust Plc with 1 error. Diageo had the poorest HTML, with nearly 10,200 failures.
 Accessibility – 8 of the of sites scored 100%, 40% of sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility, 11 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 Only 1 site Daily Mail General Trust passed the tests for AA, priority 2 compliance.
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.

1.3 Website Performance
 28 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].
 The site with the slowest download speed (site delivery capability) was United Utilities; Severn Trent had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put it into context the site was 290 times slower than United Utilities.
 The site with the slowest response time (testing web infrastructure, systems and software) was United Utilities; The BOC Group had the poorest time, the site was 518 times slower than The BOC Group.