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UK Central Government March 2007

Error free sites

  • Disability Rights Commission

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Invest to Save Budget

Excluded from index

  • The Department of Health

Index facts

Sites tested: 08 Mar 2007
Total URLs tested: 47,498
Total tests run: 15,486,224
Total number of PDF's: 1,899
URLs failing functional tests: 5.91
Pages failing code standards: 61.73
Pages missing a title: 1.03
Pages failing accessibility level A: 9.10
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 9.10
Poorest code quality: Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 112,146 failures
Fastest overall average response time: The Insolvency Service (http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

14.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 58.79%
file/url/offtop 14.69%
url/fetch/notfound 7.50%
url/mail/exception 4.02%
file/html/badmeta 3.22%
url/fetch/noaddr 2.83%
file/url/badpath 1.64%
file/html/longmeta 1.45%
file/html/notitle 1.07%
url/mail/badsmtp 0.85%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 36.84%
file/html/unknownentity 33.48%
file/html/tagnotallowed 9.55%
file/html/badattr 8.42%
file/html/badvalue 3.16%
file/html/missingclose 2.17%
file/html/unknowntag 2.06%
file/html/closingunopened 1.34%
file/html/repeatedattr 1.20%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue 0.82%