2014 Q1/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
08 Jan 2014
- Total URLs tested:
102,306
- Total tests run:
33,345,806
- Total number of PDF's:
3,706
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.58%
- Pages failing code standards:
76.86%
- Pages missing a title:
2.04%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
23.03%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.61%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 83,407 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Essex Police (http://www.essex.police.uk/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
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) |
|---|---|---|
| Essex Police | 0.02 | 1735.31 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.02 | 197.82 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 54.41 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.04 | 585.28 |
| Sussex Police | 0.04 | 71.88 |
| North Wales Police | 0.04 | 501.69 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.04 | 301.31 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.05 | 910.50 |
| British Transport Police | 0.05 | 127.60 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.05 | 61.96 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 509.35 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 497.67 |
| Surrey Police | 0.06 | 507.61 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.06 | 350.25 |
| Kent Police | 0.08 | 14.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.09 | 108.83 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.09 | 716.25 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.09 | 77.97 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.11 | 526.07 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.12 | 1456.90 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.13 | 45.21 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.15 | 251.49 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.16 | 81.72 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.16 | 788.29 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.18 | 365.02 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.18 | 180.27 |
| Ask The Police | 0.21 | 795.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.21 | 178.21 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.21 | 478.84 |
| Dorset Police | 0.21 | 162.98 |
| Police Scotland | 0.21 | 502.13 |
| South Wales Police | 0.22 | 27.33 |
| Gwent Police | 0.22 | 416.85 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.23 | 740.59 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.24 | 276.81 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.27 | 289.95 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.29 | 3311.42 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.30 | 189.45 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.31 | 24.95 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.32 | 83.66 |
| City of London Police | 0.34 | 740.12 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.34 | 11.93 |
| National Crime Agency | 0.35 | 498.28 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.35 | 129.92 |
| Humberside Police | 0.39 | 179.95 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.45 | 14.32 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.53 | 553.75 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.61 | 1160.07 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 1.18 | 181.10 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 83.20 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 100.00 | 40.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 10.40 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 9.60 |
| Police Scotland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| South Wales Police | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| City of London Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gwent Police | 99.20 | 94.40 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 99.20 | 3.20 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 2.40 |
| Cumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 98.40 | 53.60 |
| Cleveland Police | 97.60 | 49.60 |
| Northumbria Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| North Wales Police | 96.00 | 69.60 |
| Dorset Police | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Staffordshire Police | 95.20 | 36.00 |
| National Crime Agency | 95.20 | 4.80 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 94.40 | 1.60 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 90.40 | 3.20 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 85.60 | 3.20 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 79.20 | 1.60 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 64.00 | 6.40 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 39.20 | 0.80 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 20.80 | 1.60 |
| Sussex Police | 20.00 | 20.00 |
| Kent Police | 12.80 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 10.40 | 0.80 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 4.80 | 4.00 |
| Ask The Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 1.60 | 0.80 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- South Yorkshire Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Northamptonshire Police
PDF testing
43.5% of checked PDFs were not tagged for accessibility.
Sitemorse performs twenty eight checks on PDF documents as part of our website benchmarking to ensure users do not experience problems such as broken links, or failing email addresses - we are also the first to test the accessibility compliance of PDF's.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/image/badtype Image file has incorrect type |
33.36% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
24.61% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
14.63% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
8.20% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
7.18% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
5.43% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
1.88% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.52% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.28% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.23% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
20.25% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.04% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.55% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
13.34% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.09% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.32% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.93% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
2.41% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.95% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.80% |