2019 Q2/UK Police Forces


Summary

Full results


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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Apr 2019

  • Total URLs tested:

    57,226

  • Total tests run:

    18,606,796

  • Total number of PDF's:

    321

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    1.93%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    88.46%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.69%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    96.00%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    12.42%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Independent Police Complaints Commission (http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/) - 44,738 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Cambridgeshire Constabulary (http://www.cambs.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)
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.06 257.55
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.07 503.64
Staffordshire Police​ 0.07 800.32
Bedfordshire Police 0.08 331.56
Dorset Police 0.10 547.31
Cumbria Police 0.11 761.27
Northumbria Police 0.11 567.38
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.12 403.56
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.12 686.84
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.13 344.80
Surrey Police 0.14 658.85
City of London Polic​e 0.14 738.32
Merseyside Police 0.14 567.57
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.14 610.85
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.15 489.53
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.15 604.90
Thames Valley Police​ 0.16 601.48
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.16 411.59
Sussex Police 0.17 628.98
Lancashire Police 0.19 226.13
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.20 246.83
Durham Constabulary 0.21 711.75
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.22 233.30
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.24 313.25
Wiltshire Police 0.27 331.96
North Wales Police 0.31 346.08
Essex Police 0.31 732.33
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.36 715.68
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.36 233.79
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.48 297.54
Police Scotland 0.49 579.08
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.50 536.91
Kent Police 0.78 475.88
National Crime Agenc​y 0.89 672.79
South Wales Police 1.80 151.62
Organisation A AA
City of London Polic​e57.7897.04
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary50.3899.25
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary5.1998.52
Norfolk Constabulary​3.7099.26
North Wales Police3.7012.59
Police Scotland2.9642.96
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry2.2297.78
Lancashire Police1.5390.84
Warwickshire Police ​Force1.4897.04
West Mercia Constabu​lary1.4896.30
Thames Valley Police​1.4894.07
Northumbria Police0.7680.30
Surrey Police0.74100.00
Sussex Police0.74100.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service0.7496.30
Leicestershire Const​abulary0.7495.56
Wiltshire Police0.7494.07
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary0.7492.59
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce0.7489.63
National Crime Agenc​y0.7487.41
Dorset Police0.7485.19
Kent Police0.7425.93
Derbyshire Constabul​ary0.0099.26
Suffolk Constabulary​0.0099.26
Bedfordshire Police0.0098.52
Durham Constabulary0.0098.52
Merseyside Police0.0098.52
Northamptonshire Pol​ice0.0097.04
Staffordshire Police​0.0097.04
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.0096.00
South Wales Police0.0094.40
Hampshire Constabula​ry0.0093.33
Cumbria Police0.0091.85
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​0.0090.37
Essex Police0.0038.52
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Ask The Police
  • British Transport Police
  • Cheshire Police
  • Cleveland Police
  • Dyfed-Powys Police Force
  • Greater Manchester Police
  • Gwent Police
  • Humberside Police
  • Lincolnshire Police
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland
  • South Yorkshire Police
  • West Midlands Police
  • West Yorkshire Police
  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
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PDF testing

50.8% 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
50.59%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
22.86%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
8.19%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
6.21%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
2.79%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
2.61%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.25%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
2.16%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.99%
file/html/mixedcontent
Attempt to include insecure content on a secure page
0.54%
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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
22.96%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
19.98%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
13.44%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
8.12%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
6.26%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
6.26%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
5.28%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
4.81%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
4.21%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.28%