Top site this quarter with an Index of 6.04 is National Crime Agency http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Police Scotland
3rd Thames Valley Police
4th Lancashire Police
5th Civil Nuclear Constabulary
6th Leicestershire Constabulary

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Ask The Police rising 21 places to rank 17 (Index of 4.77).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 11, National Crime Agency
Rising 10, Dyfed-Powys Police Force
Rising 8, Cumbria Police
Rising 8, Thames Valley Police
Rising 8, Police Scotland

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 16th October, in all we carried out 35,326,083 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Merseyside Police was top, Cleveland Police had the fastest response time with North Wales Police reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st Civil Nuclear Constabulary
2nd Thames Valley Police
3rd Bedfordshire Police
4th Essex Police
5th Staffordshire Police

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/UK Police is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1076.

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 Police Forces" 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.