February 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
13 Feb 2007
- Total URLs tested:
45,110
- Total tests run:
14,706,406
- Total number of PDF's:
1,756
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.62%
- Pages failing code standards:
59.46%
- Pages missing a title:
1.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
9.44%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.68%
- Poorest code quality:
Highways Agency (http://www.highways.gov.uk/) - 32,783 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Health & Safety Executive (http://www.hse.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 89.92 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 88.10 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 75.78 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 73.81 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 64.29 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 61.11 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 54.69 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 12.50 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 9.30 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 3.91 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 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 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 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 |
| 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 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 99.20 | 98.40 |
| GovTalk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.64 | 67.72 |
| Home Office | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 7.14 |
| Met Office | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.85 | 1.57 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 92.97 | 0.78 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.80 | 32.80 |
| Local Government Association | 89.84 | 0.78 |
| NHS Direct | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 88.89 | 0.79 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 78.29 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 70.31 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 66.40 | 52.80 |
| National Statistics | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| 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
- Disability Rights Commission
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
10.5% 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 |
56.36% |
| file/url/offtop None |
18.64% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.36% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.75% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.07% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.68% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.20% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.04% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.93% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.92% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.01% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
23.24% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
17.50% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
13.90% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.94% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.91% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.36% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.08% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.97% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.46% |