2014 Q2/UK Central Government : web benchmark : Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission rises 252

25 Jun 2014

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Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.42 is The Pensions Regulator http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/

Screenshot of The Pensions Regulator

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Department of Education
3rd HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
4th Money Advice Service
5th Youth Justice Agency
6th House of Lords Appointments Commission

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission rising 252 places to rank 19 (Index of 5.47).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 139, Transport for London
Rising 129, Monitor - Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts
Rising 126, UK Trade & Investment
Rising 115, Civil Service
Rising 113, Royal Parks Agency

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 25th June, in all we carried out 207,029,355 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Liberal Democrat Party was top, Government Art Collection 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 Higher Education Funding Council for England
3rd Natural Resources Wales
4th The Northern Ireland Executive
5th Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q2/UK Central Gov. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1058.

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 provided a ranked table - the results are then published as the "UK Central Government" 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.

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