2019 Q4/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Oct 2019
- Total URLs tested:
73,572
- Total tests run:
23,921,768
- Total number of PDF's:
418
- URLs failing functional tests:
1.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
93.43%
- Pages missing a title:
1.20%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
98.04%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
28.78%
- Poorest code quality:
Independent Police Complaints Commission (http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/) - 45,928 failures
- Fastest average response time:
British Transport Police (http://www.btp.police.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 2.1 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).
| Organisation | Avg. Response | Download (kB/s) |
|---|---|---|
| British Transport Police | 0.01 | 35.85 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.05 | 199.13 |
| Humberside Police | 0.06 | 2242.71 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.07 | 275.61 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.08 | 437.89 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.08 | 374.37 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.09 | 605.16 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.10 | 520.56 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.10 | 306.43 |
| Dorset Police | 0.10 | 479.72 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.10 | 474.58 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.12 | 609.05 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.13 | 572.56 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.14 | 419.31 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.15 | 215.38 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.16 | 378.35 |
| City of London Police | 0.17 | 434.51 |
| Gwent Police | 0.17 | 1106.54 |
| North Wales Police | 0.18 | 417.72 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.18 | 513.37 |
| Police Scotland | 0.19 | 909.38 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.19 | 321.73 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.20 | 506.81 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.20 | 253.52 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.21 | 674.18 |
| Ask The Police | 0.22 | 80.23 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.22 | 213.41 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.22 | 925.01 |
| Essex Police | 0.23 | 686.23 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.25 | 474.94 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.25 | 623.56 |
| Kent Police | 0.25 | 632.19 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.26 | 583.75 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.26 | 249.33 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.26 | 507.53 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.27 | 570.34 |
| Sussex Police | 0.29 | 792.52 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.29 | 236.79 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.30 | 610.92 |
| Surrey Police | 0.30 | 806.37 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.32 | 508.53 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.33 | 524.54 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.37 | 325.08 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.41 | 837.93 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.47 | 412.80 |
| National Crime Agency | 0.48 | 538.39 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.58 | 349.88 |
| South Wales Police | 1.17 | 149.26 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 52.63 | 97.74 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5.19 | 98.52 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 3.70 | 97.78 |
| Police Scotland | 3.70 | 97.78 |
| Gwent Police | 3.70 | 7.41 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 2.96 | 97.78 |
| Northumbria Police | 2.27 | 67.42 |
| National Crime Agency | 2.22 | 92.59 |
| Cleveland Police | 1.56 | 3.12 |
| Lancashire Police | 1.53 | 96.18 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 1.48 | 99.26 |
| Surrey Police | 1.48 | 97.04 |
| North Wales Police | 1.48 | 12.59 |
| Cheshire Police | 1.48 | 7.41 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 1.48 | 6.67 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 1.48 | 5.19 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.74 | 100.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.74 | 100.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.74 | 97.78 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.74 | 95.56 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.74 | 95.56 |
| City of London Police | 0.74 | 94.81 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.74 | 88.15 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.74 | 5.93 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.00 | 100.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.00 | 100.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.00 | 100.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.00 | 100.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.00 | 99.26 |
| Essex Police | 0.00 | 98.52 |
| Kent Police | 0.00 | 98.52 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.00 | 97.78 |
| Sussex Police | 0.00 | 97.78 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.00 | 97.78 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.00 | 97.04 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.00 | 94.81 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.00 | 94.07 |
| South Wales Police | 0.00 | 93.60 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.00 | 93.33 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 92.80 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.00 | 88.89 |
| Dorset Police | 0.00 | 84.44 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.00 | 7.41 |
| Humberside Police | 0.00 | 7.41 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 7.41 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.00 | 3.88 |
| Ask The Police | 0.00 | 1.60 |
| British Transport Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Metropolitan Police Service
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- British Transport Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Gloucestershire Constabulary
PDF testing
45.7% 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/image/badtype Image file has incorrect type |
40.32% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
31.13% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
12.43% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.68% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
3.73% |
| url/fetch/errorstatus Error status code received from web server |
2.84% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.38% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.98% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.84% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.22% |
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 |
22.31% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
16.89% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
16.45% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
8.32% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
8.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.47% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
4.87% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.43% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
3.42% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.86% |