2015 Q2/UK Central Government : web benchmark : British Council rises 110

22 Jun 2015

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Top site this quarter with an Index of 7.92 is The Pensions Regulator http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/

Screenshot of The Pensions Regulator

The next top five sites are listed below:
2nd Office of Surveillance Commissioners
3rd Met Office
4th GOV.UK
5th Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
6th Serious Fraud Office (SFO)

The site that demonstrated the greatest improvement was British Council rising 110 places to rank 42 (Index of 4.91).

The next five most improved sites are listed below:
Rising 103, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM)
Rising 99, Legal Ombudsman
Rising 98, Ordnance Survey
Rising 84, Wallace Collection
Rising 79, Department for Social Development

The reviewing and subsequent benchmarking of the sites was completed on 22nd June, in all we carried out 160,127,695 checks - testing function, checking compliance and measuring performance - reviewing the page content, code and delivery infrastructure. Functionally Office of Surveillance Commissioners 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 Office for Nuclear Regulation
2nd Advisory Committee on Animal Feedstuffs
3rd Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food
4th Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals
5th Northern Ireland Policing Board

The full results and access to the Sitemorse INDEX, 2015 Q2/UK Central Gov. is available at: http://www.sitemorse.com/rt/1123.

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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