Finlands Best - Validation Schmalidation
March 6th, 2008
Finalists of Grand One ‘08 were announced few days ago. Comparing to finalists of 2006 code quality is getting better but there is still lot of room for improvement.
Table below lists finalists from Best B2C service, Best B2B service and Best infodesign categories. Flash sites were left out. Two interesting numbers are listed.
- Number of validation errors on frontpage.
- Percentage calculated by dividing number of lines of html code with number of validation errors.
Lines of code for each site was calculated by executing the following on commandline:
>lynx -source http://www.example.com/ | wc
Most validation errors in one page
This years winner has amazing 301 validation errors. Award goes to Valve and Plenware produced kauppalehti.fi. Shared second place goes to TietoEnator, Avarko, QBrick produced ClassicLive. and Elisa Verkkokauppa by Mainostoimisto Ego (hey guys, what happen!?). Both sites have 113 validation errors. Second place goes to TietoEnator, Avarko, QBrick produced ClassicLive with 113 validation errors. YLE’s inhouse production yle.fi receives third place with 100 errors.
Elisa Verkkokauppa was fixed few hours after publishing this. Apparently backend coder had forgot to close <img> tags. It fully validates so I am taking away the second prize. (Yes, I used to work in EGO. Yes, I still work in Taivas Group.)
Biggest percentage of erroneous lines in code
Things are bit different if we compare number of errors to lines of code. Oma kaupunki by Sanoma Data has the worst ratio. 39% of lines of code has an error. Shared second place again to Mainostoimisto Ego’s Elisa Verkkokauppa and Lemminkäinen by Nitro and VisualWeb. Both having 30% of erroneous lines. Second place goes to Lemminkäinen by Nitro and VisualWeb with 30% error ratio. YLE Areena by YLE Uudet palvelut, Tebit, Tietoenator Digital Innovations and Plenware receives third place with 25%.
I would like to congratulate all the winners. May you all have better code-fu next year.
| Company | Site | Content-Type | Errors | Lines with error |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kauppalehti verkkopalvelut, Valve, Plenware | Kauppalehti.fi sivustouudistus | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 301 | 20% |
| TietoEnator Digital Innovations Oy, Avarko Oy, Qbrick | ClassicLive | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 113 | 22% |
| YLE Uudet palvelut | yle.fi | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 100 | 17% |
| YLE Uudet palvelut, Tebit, Tietoenator Digital Innovations, Plenware | YLE Areena | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 89 | 25% |
| Nitro, VisualWeb | Lemminkäisen verkkosivusto | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 87 | 30% |
| Helsingin Sanomat Oy, Sanoma Data Oy | Oma kaupunki –paikallishakupalvelu | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 38 | 39% |
| YLE Uudet palvelut, Twinkle, Funvision (nyk. Steam) | ESC Helsinki 2007 webissä ja mobiilissa | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 21 | 8% |
| Smilehouse Oy | Wosbee | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 20 | 3% |
| Roottori Oy, Barabra Oy, Fonecta Oy | Moutique – Mobile Boutique | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 17 | 9% |
| Foreca Oy, Via Media Oy | foreca.mobi | XHTML Mobile 1.1 | 9 | 7% |
| Sulake Dynamoid Oy | IRC-Gallerian eduskuntavaalit 2007 | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 9 | 1% |
| Rohea Oy, Eremenko & Metsola | Kotikokki.net | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 4 | 1% |
| ÄKT RY, Nordkapp, Faster Faster Graphics | Latauslista.fi | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 0 | 0% |
| Nokia, Valve | WidSets 1.0 | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 0 | 0% |
| Morning Digital Design Oy, Absolutions Oy | HIAB | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 0 | 0% |
| Mainostoimisto Ego Oy | Elisa/Verkkokauppa | XHTML 1.0 Strict | 0 | 0% |
Related entries: The Grand One 2004 – The Finnish New Media Oscars, Finlands Best And Still Crappy Code
1 Response to “Finlands Best - Validation Schmalidation”
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March 6th, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Backend coder doing HTML happened.
Fixed now :)