January 2007/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    22 Jan 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    26,998

  • Total tests run:

    8,791,588

  • Total number of PDF's:

    663

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.33%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    63.17%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.95%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    24.16%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    92.81%

  • Poorest code quality:

    West Yorkshire Police (http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/) - 12,241 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.gov.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 1.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
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Organisation A AA
Gwent Police100.0094.49
Derbyshire Constabul​ary100.0093.65
Greater Manchester P​olice100.0074.02
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.0029.55
Cleveland Police100.000.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Durham Constabulary100.000.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.000.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry100.000.00
Lancashire Police100.000.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary100.000.00
Non-Emergency Crime100.000.00
Northumbria Police100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
Police Information T​echnology Organisati​on99.220.00
Wiltshire Police99.210.00
Cheshire Police99.2083.20
West Yorkshire Polic​e98.440.00
Bedfordshire Police98.430.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry98.430.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce97.6225.40
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​97.620.00
Fife Constabulary96.900.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police96.830.00
Sussex Police96.060.79
West Mercia Constabu​lary96.000.00
Kent Police95.310.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force94.490.00
Grampian Police92.860.00
South Wales Police92.860.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service92.130.00
Norfolk Constabulary​92.060.00
Association of Polic​e Authorities90.480.00
West Midlands Police​89.600.00
Essex Police86.6125.20
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary82.680.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary82.400.00
Northern Constabular​y79.530.00
Staffordshire Police​78.570.00
City of London Polic​e77.170.00
Cumbria Police76.000.80
Lincolnshire Police73.640.00
North Wales Police72.440.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce69.600.00
Surrey Police60.160.00
Humberside Police44.440.00
British Transport Po​lice40.940.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice39.060.00
Strathclyde Police14.400.00
Thames Valley Police​10.320.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary9.520.00
Merseyside Police3.150.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce2.680.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce2.360.00
Dorset Police0.790.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland0.790.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Central Scotland Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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PDF testing

10.3% 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.

file/url/offtop
None
57.37%
file/url/badpath
None
12.00%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
11.86%
file/html/longmeta
None
5.02%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.25%
file/html/notitle
None
1.91%
file/url/badquery
None
1.88%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.46%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.37%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.64%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
19.94%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
18.50%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
16.65%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
12.85%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
8.65%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
8.62%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
7.21%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.10%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.90%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.54%