April 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Apr 2007
- Total URLs tested:
43,441
- Total tests run:
14,170,533
- Total number of PDF's:
2,008
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.01%
- Pages failing code standards:
59.97%
- Pages missing a title:
0.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
10.23%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.62%
- Poorest code quality:
Department for Transport (http://www.dft.gov.uk/) - 36,540 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 | 91.41 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 89.68 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 84.38 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 75.59 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 100.00 | 69.05 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 67.19 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 53.54 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 39.84 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 24.03 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 10.16 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 3.97 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 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 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 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 1.57 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 92.25 | 0.78 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 91.47 | 0.78 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 82.40 | 2.40 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 72.80 | 45.60 |
| National Statistics | 21.26 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| NHS Direct | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| 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.
- 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
- Invest to Save Budget
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
12.3% 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 |
55.65% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.06% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
7.81% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
4.46% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.27% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.90% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.54% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.45% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.04% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.02% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.77% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
23.69% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
15.82% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.98% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.96% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.40% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.21% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.02% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.94% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.67% |