November 2006/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Nov 2006
- Total URLs tested:
43,182
- Total tests run:
14,073,592
- Total number of PDF's:
1,517
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.33%
- Pages failing code standards:
60.34%
- Pages missing a title:
0.88%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.65%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.06%
- Poorest code quality:
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (http://www.mla.gov.uk/) - 21,403 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Invest to Save Budget (http://www.isb.gov.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 88.52 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 85.27 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 85.27 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 85.04 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 64.57 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 57.03 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Commission for Racial Equality | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government Communication Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 98.43 | 0.79 |
| Food Standards Agency | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 97.67 | 1.55 |
| Ministry of Defence | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 6.35 |
| Home Office | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 95.24 | 1.59 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 33.86 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 92.86 | 61.11 |
| HM Prison Service | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 79.69 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 69.29 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 66.40 | 40.00 |
| National Statistics | 16.67 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Planning Portal
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Invest to Save Budget
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
11.5% 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/url/badquery None |
58.02% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.62% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.79% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.60% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.15% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.10% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.87% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.21% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.16% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.14% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
21.33% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
19.13% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
18.83% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
17.42% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.66% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.91% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.13% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.54% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.78% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.68% |