May 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 May 2007
- Total URLs tested:
45,068
- Total tests run:
14,700,296
- Total number of PDF's:
2,046
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.19%
- Pages failing code standards:
58.38%
- Pages missing a title:
0.92%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.38%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.74%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 67,684 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 | 99.20 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 96.06 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 88.80 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 80.80 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 80.16 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 63.28 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 52.76 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 100.00 | 49.60 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 13.18 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 10.08 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 2.33 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 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 |
| DTI - Innovation | 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 |
| GovTalk | 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 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 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 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 99.22 | 3.12 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.21 | 40.16 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.20 | 3.20 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.90 | 0.78 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 95.35 | 0.78 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 31.75 |
| Transport for London | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 85.04 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 84.13 | 3.97 |
| Privy Council Office | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 64.00 | 46.40 |
| National Statistics | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 1.59 |
| 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.
- Department for Transport
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
14.6% 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 |
62.63% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.83% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
6.21% |
| file/url/offtop None |
4.37% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.33% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.90% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.69% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.45% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.45% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.37% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.37% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.56% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
13.06% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
11.93% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.50% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.59% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.53% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.52% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.48% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.28% |