2014 Q4/UK Central Government : web benchmark : Business Gateway rises 174

22 Dec 2014

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Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.98 is The Pensions Regulator http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/

Screenshot of The Pensions Regulator

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Met Office
3rd Coal Authority
4th Charity Commission for England and Wales
5th Government Legal Service
6th Central Arbitration Committee

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Business Gateway rising 174 places to rank 30 (Index of 5.69).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 174, Business Gateway
Rising 162, Technology Strategy Board
Rising 162, Ofqual
Rising 125, Homes & Communities Agency
Rising 114, Charity Commission for England and Wales

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 22nd December, in all we carried out 183,795,989 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Central Arbitration Committee was top, Civil Aviation Authority had the fastest response time with House of Lords Appointments Commission reporting the best HTML 'code quality'.

The top sites for accessibility were:
1st HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
2nd Veterinary Medicines Directorate
3rd Technology Strategy Board
4th Natural England
5th Homes & Communities Agency

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q4/UK Central Gov. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1088.

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 Central Government" INDEX.

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