May 2006/Government and Public Bodies



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    05 Sep 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    -

  • Total tests run:

    -

  • Total number of PDF's:

    -

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    None%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    None%

  • Pages missing a title:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    None%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (http://www.mla.gov.uk/) - 22,377 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Department for Constitutional Affairs (http://www.dca.gov.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

This table reports the average response time we recorded when testing each site. A response time above 0.7 seconds can have a negative effect on user experience.

This table reports the percentage of pages on the sites we tested that passed automated WCAG 1.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards
Organisation A AA
Directgov Jobs and S​kills100.0091.46
Local e-Government P​rogramme100.0084.92
Child Support Agency​100.0080.16
Government Communica​tion Network100.0079.07
Health &​ Safety Executive100.0062.70
Planning Portal100.000.78
10 Downing Street100.000.00
Business Link100.000.00
Cabinet Office100.000.00
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Charter Mark100.000.00
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.00
Data Protection100.000.00
Department for Inter​national Development​100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
Disability Rights Co​mmission100.000.00
GovTalk100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Home Office - Drugs100.000.00
Human Rights100.000.00
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Office of the Deputy​ Prime Minister100.000.00
Office of the Inform​ation Commissioner100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
The Scottish Governm​ent100.000.00
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.000.00
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority100.000.00
e-Government Unit100.000.00
MI599.220.00
Ministry of Defence99.220.00
The Pension Service99.2171.43
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct99.200.00
Companies House99.200.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs99.200.00
Museums, Libraries a​nd Archives Council99.200.00
UK Trade &​ Investment99.200.00
Home Office97.670.00
Food Standards Agenc​y97.600.00
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 97.600.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport96.880.00
UK Sport96.830.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds96.800.00
HM Revenue &​ Customs96.800.00
HM Prison Service95.240.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​93.700.00
NHS Direct93.700.00
Department for Work ​and Pensions92.8048.80
Met Office92.800.00
Office of Fair Tradi​ng92.800.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs89.760.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service89.680.00
Public Record Office​89.680.00
Department for Educa​tion and Skills88.190.79
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency88.190.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission87.500.00
Privy Council Office​84.380.00
Transport for London​80.160.00
Financial Services A​uthority77.6046.40
Jobcentre Plus72.220.00
IDeA Knowledge70.310.00
OGCbuying.solutions64.800.00
National Assembly fo​r Wales60.000.00
DTI - Innovation37.980.00
National Statistics13.390.00
Wales Office11.110.00
Office of Science an​d Innovation2.400.00
Consumer Gateway2.330.78
Local Government Ass​ociation0.790.00
Department of Trade ​&​ Industry0.000.00
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.000.00
Invest to Save Budge​t0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Directgov Jobs and Skills
  • Department for Transport
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Department of Trade & Industry
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Invest to Save Budget
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
39.70%
file/url/offtop
None
25.95%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
10.63%
file/html/metascheme
None
9.05%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.26%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.02%
file/html/longmeta
None
1.96%
file/url/badpath
None
1.38%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.19%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.06%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
19.77%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
18.18%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
17.07%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
15.80%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.64%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
5.61%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
5.21%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.61%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.19%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
1.59%