Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.76 is Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education http://www.grimsby.ac.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd FutureLearn
3rd Warwickshire College
4th Walsall College
5th Henley College Coventry
6th Central School of Speech and Drama

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Southport College rising 263 places to rank 56 (Index of 5.22).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 259, University of south Wales
Rising 207, Guildford College
Rising 206, Blackburn College
Rising 195, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
Rising 189, Brooksby Melton College

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 15th October, in all we carried out 241,910,838 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Capel Manor College was top, St Mary's University College, Twickenham had the fastest response time with University College Birmingham reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st University College Birmingham
2nd Stratford upon Avon College
3rd East Riding College
4th Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
5th Westminster Kingsway College

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/UK Uni & HE is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1077.

Sitemorse INDEX

HOW? Using our software, we look at each site individually, mapping out every combination of every one of the top 125 pages and complete around 1,200 tests, checks and measures across User Experience (UX), Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Search Capability (SEO). Against the results, our benchmarking methodology is applied to provide a ranked table - the results are then published as the "UK Universities and Higher Education" INDEX.

WHY? The quarterly Index Website Review, is across each of the sectors as the independent benchmark identifying how websites are performing, meeting compliance levels and satisfying their users. It's also a key indicator for website managers who, while always wanting to be at the top of their game, could be hampered by poor-performing suppliers, non-compliant legacy content or content management systems that often fail to spot errors affecting user experience.

Client services such as Venobia, Governisation and the Web Management Toolkit immediately find the issues that affect web users the most on any website, help demonstrate real improvement and ensure you have control and confidence in your web presence. They will help you minimise unnecessary risk, issues covering everything from compliance with web standards to helping you deal with malware, protect your brand across even a large web presence, and enhance search engine optimisation to help more potential customers find you. They can help spotlight content that may need updating, issues with staff training and support, and focus supplier management. We offer a confidential internal 'company wide' website testing and benchmarking service - allowing you to review the position of all the sites in your organisation.