Top site this quarter with an Index of 8.68 is Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Office for National Statistics
3rd The Pensions Regulator
4th Valuation Office Agency
5th Legal Services Commission
6th Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was Service Personnel and Veterans Agency rising 193 places to rank 19 (Index of 6.84).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 185, Independent Reconfiguration Panel
Rising 144, Construction Industry Training Board
Rising 141, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Rising 110, Legal Services Commission
Rising 106, Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 20th March, in all we carried out 182,945,477 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Central Arbitration Committee 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 Veterinary Medicines Directorate
3rd Natural England
4th Technology Strategy Board
5th Independent Reconfiguration Panel

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2015 Q1/UK Central Gov. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1104.

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 looks at major public and private 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.

Our services provide you with true 'digital insight', ceaselessly monitoring your online content and pointing you to areas that could be potential problems for you, your clients, and your stakeholders.

Needing no installation or involvement from your in-house IT teams, our services will run alongside your content management systems:

- Helping make your customer journeys good ones, leaving your clients and online contacts wanting to come back.
- Keeping you always ahead of the curve on the latest online legislation that could affect you.
- Protecting your organisation and your web users from online threats.

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. Contact us to find out more.