December 2006/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
18 Dec 2006
- Total URLs tested:
42,234
- Total tests run:
13,761,332
- Total number of PDF's:
1,357
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.80%
- Pages failing code standards:
62.66%
- Pages missing a title:
0.72%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.98%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.69%
- Poorest code quality:
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (http://www.mla.gov.uk/) - 21,208 failures
- Fastest average response time:
The Pension Service (http://www.thepensionservice.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 | 96.83 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 91.34 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 87.50 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 81.89 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 66.67 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 55.04 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 53.12 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 3.97 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 1.56 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Commission for Racial Equality | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 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 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-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 98.45 | 8.53 |
| Home Office | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.90 | 2.33 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 93.60 | 60.80 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 33.33 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 84.50 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 67.20 | 51.20 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 51.20 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Disability Rights Commission
- Government News Network
- Health & Safety Executive
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Highways Agency
- Invest to Save Budget
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
10.8% 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 |
54.54% |
| file/url/offtop None |
21.52% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.86% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
2.23% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.76% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.73% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.66% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.16% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.99% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.98% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
22.42% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.02% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
19.16% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
16.36% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.19% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.62% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.16% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.39% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.73% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.39% |