Top site this quarter with an Index of 8.84 is Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd The Pensions Regulator
3rd HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
4th Natural Resources Wales
5th Youth Justice Agency
6th Office of Surveillance Commissioners

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Land Registry rising 233 places to rank 21 (Index of 5.32).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 216, The Northern Ireland Assembly
Rising 153, National Museums Liverpool
Rising 143, Department for Enterprise, Trade and Investment
Rising 120, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Rising 116, Security Service (MI5)

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 25th September, in all we carried out 179,469,082 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Met Office 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 The Pensions Regulator
3rd Higher Education Funding Council for England
4th Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
5th Department for Employment and Learning

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2014 Q3/UK Central Gov. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1070.

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.

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.