The utilities sector has been crowned the industry with the best website performance last year, research shows. Out of all those featured on the FTSE 100 and 250 indexes, utilities came out top in a major change to findings from last year.
Zengenti, creators of CMS, Contensis, rolled out its annual Big Players, Slow Web Pages campaign, analysing all FTSE 100 and 250 homepages to determine which industries and organisations had the best online presence this year and which lagged behind.
In 2022, the media and publishing industry came in first place but fell 14 places to the bottom three in 2023’s ranking with an overall score of 234.
With an overall score of 269, the utilities sector climbed up 12 places to reach first place this year, narrowly outperforming the sports and entertainment industry in second place (268), while the food and beverage sector landed in third (261).
To create the research, the team collated the performance, accessibility and speed scores for each FTSE 100 and 250 company before calculating and comparing averages for each sector.
Richard Chivers, Co-founder of Contensis and CEO of Zengenti, said: “This research shows how important it is to pay attention to and maintain your business’ website performance. Last year, media and publishing topped the list, yet the industry has fallen a staggering 14 places to the bottom three in this year’s ranking.”