January 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Jan 2007
- Total URLs tested:
43,717
- Total tests run:
14,227,109
- Total number of PDF's:
734
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.23%
- Pages failing code standards:
60.09%
- Pages missing a title:
0.94%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.22%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.78%
- Poorest code quality:
Highways Agency (http://www.highways.gov.uk/) - 26,756 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 | 98.40 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 92.06 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 89.15 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 83.46 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 65.35 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 65.08 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 55.04 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 51.20 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 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 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 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 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 99.22 | 8.53 |
| Planning Portal | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.60 | 7.20 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.09 | 1.56 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 93.70 | 66.14 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 33.33 |
| HM Prison Service | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 86.61 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 82.03 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 69.29 | 41.73 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 15.87 | 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.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights
- Disability Rights Commission
- Planning Portal
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
24.2% 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 |
57.90% |
| file/url/offtop None |
17.98% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.47% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.53% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.95% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.87% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.20% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.16% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.04% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.00% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
23.70% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.51% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
17.47% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
17.28% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.78% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.19% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.76% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.47% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.86% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.37% |