June 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Jun 2007
- Total URLs tested:
45,650
- Total tests run:
14,893,320
- Total number of PDF's:
2,195
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.79%
- Pages failing code standards:
56.91%
- Pages missing a title:
0.72%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.88%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 49,707 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights (http://www.dca.gov.uk/peoples-rights/human-rights/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 90.48 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 89.15 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 79.69 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 68.00 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 67.97 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 61.90 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 60.32 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 100.00 | 56.35 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 35.16 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 27.18 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.00 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 7.14 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 1.55 |
| 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 - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 99.20 | 97.60 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Ofcom | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 91.41 | 2.34 |
| NHS Direct | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 88.10 | 5.56 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 74.02 | 0.79 |
| The Insolvency Service | 72.80 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 48.00 | 60.00 |
| National Statistics | 25.20 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| 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.
- Child Support Agency
- 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
16.1% 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 |
57.19% |
| file/url/offtop None |
9.86% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.59% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
6.88% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.30% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.05% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.69% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.63% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.38% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.27% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
36.26% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
32.95% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.38% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.48% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.43% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.99% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.84% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.70% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.62% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.55% |