2019 Q1/UK Police Forces


Summary

Full results


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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    08 Jan 2019

  • Total URLs tested:

    87,835

  • Total tests run:

    28,557,737

  • Total number of PDF's:

    437

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.38%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    87.33%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.25%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    95.79%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    41.95%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Independent Police Complaints Commission (http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/) - 46,466 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    British Transport Police (http://www.btp.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 2.1 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
British Transport Po​lice 0.02 752.87
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.04 418.51
Humberside Police 0.05 2902.73
Cleveland Police 0.06 319.42
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.06 621.44
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.07 795.99
Staffordshire Police​ 0.07 4222.24
Bedfordshire Police 0.08 459.04
Cheshire Police 0.08 817.87
Lincolnshire Police 0.09 922.33
Dorset Police 0.09 1294.57
Essex Police 0.09 1271.28
Gwent Police 0.10 2086.09
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.10 549.14
Northumbria Police 0.13 970.65
Cumbria Police 0.13 450.07
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.14 1052.84
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.14 733.27
City of London Polic​e 0.16 1389.09
Kent Police 0.16 795.18
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.17 654.76
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.17 455.50
Lancashire Police 0.17 521.05
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.17 1058.36
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.20 226.59
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.21 389.87
Durham Constabulary 0.21 716.81
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.22 874.40
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.22 981.47
Merseyside Police 0.22 884.30
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.23 286.92
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.24 1180.99
Ask The Police 0.24 146.35
Surrey Police 0.26 963.55
North Wales Police 0.27 681.28
Sussex Police 0.27 905.92
Thames Valley Police​ 0.27 942.71
Wiltshire Police 0.27 354.70
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.32 269.68
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.36 995.42
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.36 512.27
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.37 245.53
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.38 2035.27
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.42 713.63
West Midlands Police​ 0.43 1040.73
Police Scotland 0.65 709.65
National Crime Agenc​y 1.19 226.64
South Wales Police 1.55 181.46
Organisation A AA
City of London Polic​e65.9394.81
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary42.1188.72
Derbyshire Constabul​ary33.3389.63
Police Scotland19.2667.41
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary7.41100.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry2.9697.04
Cumbria Police2.9689.63
Gwent Police2.968.15
Norfolk Constabulary​2.966.67
Cleveland Police2.314.62
British Transport Po​lice2.223.70
Lancashire Police1.5081.95
Bedfordshire Police1.48100.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force1.4897.04
West Mercia Constabu​lary1.4897.04
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary1.4877.78
West Midlands Police​1.4811.11
Northamptonshire Pol​ice0.7496.30
Leicestershire Const​abulary0.7494.07
Metropolitan Police ​Service0.7493.33
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce0.7491.11
Dorset Police0.7479.26
Essex Police0.7436.30
North Wales Police0.748.89
Cheshire Police0.748.15
Humberside Police0.746.67
Lincolnshire Police0.746.67
Suffolk Constabulary​0.746.67
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland0.745.93
Surrey Police0.0099.26
Sussex Police0.0099.26
Wiltshire Police0.0099.26
Merseyside Police0.0097.78
Staffordshire Police​0.0095.56
Hampshire Constabula​ry0.0094.81
Thames Valley Police​0.0094.81
South Wales Police0.0092.00
Northumbria Police0.0086.26
National Crime Agenc​y0.0082.96
Durham Constabulary0.0080.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​0.0062.22
Kent Police0.0024.44
West Yorkshire Polic​e0.008.15
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce0.007.41
Greater Manchester P​olice0.007.41
South Yorkshire Poli​ce0.004.44
Ask The Police0.001.60
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • North Yorkshire Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
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PDF testing

46.0% 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
51.54%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
12.54%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
12.21%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
6.46%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
5.80%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
5.08%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
3.28%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
1.24%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.48%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.48%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
19.59%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
17.94%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
10.78%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
10.77%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.42%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.58%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
5.31%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
4.12%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
4.00%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
3.34%