July 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Jul 2007
- Total URLs tested:
44,943
- Total tests run:
14,664,065
- Total number of PDF's:
2,215
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.09%
- Pages failing code standards:
55.10%
- Pages missing a title:
0.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
8.41%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.41%
- Poorest code quality:
Department for Transport (http://www.dft.gov.uk/) - 31,830 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Government Communication Network (http://www.comms.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 |
|---|---|---|
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 90.48 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 86.05 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 77.78 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 77.60 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 62.70 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 53.60 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 49.60 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 24.03 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 20.63 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 10.08 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 7.14 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 3.15 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 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 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 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 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 |
| Met 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 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.21 | 7.14 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 99.20 | 100.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.60 | 62.40 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Commission for Equality and Human Rights | 96.00 | 59.20 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 93.60 | 6.40 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 30.16 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 66.40 | 49.60 |
| National Statistics | 24.03 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 1.41 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Highways Agency
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
17.0% 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 |
59.14% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.40% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
6.23% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.32% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.17% |
| file/url/offtop None |
3.81% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.83% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.81% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.73% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
1.52% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.84% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
29.57% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.65% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.01% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.47% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.60% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.26% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.20% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.85% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.63% |