2017 Q4/UK Police Forces


Summary

Full results


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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Oct 2017

  • Total URLs tested:

    96,098

  • Total tests run:

    31,372,536

  • Total number of PDF's:

    5,411

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.30%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    78.58%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.88%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    91.65%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    39.28%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 28,780 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    South Yorkshire Police (http://www.southyorks.police.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 2.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.04 1861.79
British Transport Po​lice 0.04 1184.07
Humberside Police 0.05 2613.76
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.06 954.59
Bedfordshire Police 0.06 1814.73
Merseyside Police 0.08 462.20
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.08 1562.07
Lincolnshire Police 0.08 938.44
Essex Police 0.09 2163.02
Staffordshire Police​ 0.09 3493.03
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.11 1789.07
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.12 878.78
West Midlands Police​ 0.13 638.42
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.15 620.69
Durham Constabulary 0.15 1322.07
Kent Police 0.15 1019.71
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.15 1371.65
Northumbria Police 0.17 563.32
Dorset Police 0.17 1673.80
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.17 593.96
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.17 719.88
Cheshire Police 0.19 1351.74
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.20 423.23
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.20 2616.40
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.22 365.15
Surrey Police 0.22 2094.87
Thames Valley Police​ 0.22 585.07
Lancashire Police 0.22 306.59
Cleveland Police 0.22 867.47
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.24 606.88
City of London Polic​e 0.24 2216.44
Ask The Police 0.24 125.14
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.25 457.58
North Wales Police 0.25 1051.50
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.25 724.77
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.28 209.58
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.29 3871.73
Police Scotland 0.29 5069.88
Sussex Police 0.29 2447.78
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.31 830.07
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.33 1601.22
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.35 1827.51
Cumbria Police 0.38 1881.73
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.40 1512.36
Gwent Police 0.52 2209.78
National Crime Agenc​y 0.56 336.90
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.84 247.65
Wiltshire Police 1.39 470.11
Organisation A AA
City of London Polic​e54.6092.02
Police Scotland48.6878.21
Cumbria Police43.4387.88
Bedfordshire Police33.5195.74
North Wales Police30.4843.87
Derbyshire Constabul​ary25.0096.26
Staffordshire Police​17.1087.73
West Yorkshire Polic​e11.8039.67
Sussex Police10.3945.88
Cheshire Police9.3627.59
Wiltshire Police8.4284.21
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce7.5591.19
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary6.2887.43
Gwent Police6.2111.72
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary5.8391.26
South Yorkshire Poli​ce5.4295.78
British Transport Po​lice5.3615.48
Suffolk Constabulary​5.2490.77
Lincolnshire Police5.0020.00
Surrey Police4.9034.31
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry4.8694.05
Metropolitan Police ​Service4.6498.97
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland4.2351.47
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce4.0295.40
Cleveland Police3.8718.06
Norfolk Constabulary​3.7629.57
Essex Police3.6153.09
Dorset Police3.1487.42
Merseyside Police2.7615.17
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary2.7285.03
West Midlands Police​2.245.97
Kent Police2.0050.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary1.9717.11
Leicestershire Const​abulary1.8697.52
Northamptonshire Pol​ice1.8693.79
National Crime Agenc​y1.7480.23
Durham Constabulary1.6780.56
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​1.6580.61
Lancashire Police1.4878.52
Humberside Police1.2462.62
Greater Manchester P​olice1.0532.98
Northumbria Police0.0096.95
Warwickshire Police ​Force0.0096.88
West Mercia Constabu​lary0.0084.92
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.009.29
Ask The Police0.001.60
Hampshire Constabula​ry0.000.00
Thames Valley Police​0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Hampshire Constabulary
  • Thames Valley Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • South Wales Police
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PDF testing

39.7% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
59.49%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
15.00%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
5.73%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
5.01%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
4.88%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
2.95%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
2.37%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
2.24%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.72%
file/image/invalid
Image file is corrupt
0.45%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
16.79%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
16.52%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
14.98%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
11.33%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
7.07%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.98%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
6.04%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
5.64%
file/image/size
Image file size or dimensions do not match
4.45%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.53%