March 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
89.68%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 112,146 failures
- Fastest average response time:
The Insolvency Service (http://www.insolvency.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 96.03 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 89.84 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 86.40 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 79.37 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 70.40 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 68.80 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 100.00 | 65.87 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 63.20 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 18.11 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 6.20 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| 10 Downing Street | 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 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 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 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 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 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.21 | 46.46 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 99.21 | 4.76 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.03 | 7.94 |
| DTI - Innovation | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 94.57 | 0.78 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 34.13 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 89.68 | 1.59 |
| NHS Direct | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 87.40 | 3.15 |
| Transport for London | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 83.33 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 61.60 | 39.20 |
| National Statistics | 32.54 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 1.60 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Disability Rights Commission
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Invest to Save Budget
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- The Department of Health
PDF testing
14.8% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
58.79% |
| file/url/offtop None |
14.69% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.50% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
4.02% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.22% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.83% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.64% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.45% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.07% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.85% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
36.84% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
33.48% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.55% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.42% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.16% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.17% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.06% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.34% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.20% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
0.82% |