July 2007/Government and Public Bodies



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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 Expand / contract icon

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 Knowledge100.0090.48
Disability Rights Co​mmission100.0086.05
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.0077.78
The Pension Service100.0077.60
Office of the First ​Minister and Deputy ​First Minister100.0062.70
Directgov Jobs and S​kills100.0053.60
Child Support Agency​100.0049.60
The Scottish Governm​ent100.0024.03
National Assembly fo​r Wales100.0020.63
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.0016.80
Information Commissi​oner's Office100.0010.08
UK Sport100.007.14
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.004.00
OGCbuying.solutions100.003.15
MI5100.001.59
Planning Portal100.000.80
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency100.000.78
10 Downing Street100.000.00
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Charter Mark100.000.00
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs - ​People's Rights100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
Department of Trade ​&​ Industry100.000.00
GovTalk100.000.00
Government Communica​tion Network100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
HM Revenue &​ Customs100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Home Office - Drugs100.000.00
Met Office100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
Welsh Assembly Gover​nment100.000.00
e-Government Unit100.000.00
Local Government Ass​ociation99.220.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs99.217.14
Department for Commu​nities and Local Gov​ernment99.210.00
Food Standards Agenc​y99.210.00
Ofcom99.210.00
UK Trade &​ Investment99.210.00
Health &​ Safety Executive99.20100.00
DTI - Innovation99.200.00
Department for Inter​national Development​99.200.00
Ministry of Defence99.200.00
Museums, Libraries a​nd Archives Council99.200.00
Office of Science an​d Innovation 99.200.00
Home Office98.410.00
Business Link98.400.00
Companies House98.400.00
HM Prison Service98.400.00
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 98.400.00
Department for Work ​and Pensions97.6062.40
Human Rights97.600.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission96.900.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds96.830.00
Wales Office96.830.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service96.800.00
Commission for Equal​ity and Human Rights​96.0059.20
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority95.450.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport94.570.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs93.606.40
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct93.600.00
Transport for London​93.600.00
Fire Gateway 92.8630.16
Office of Fair Tradi​ng92.860.00
NHS Direct89.760.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​88.800.00
Jobcentre Plus85.600.00
Public Record Office​84.920.00
Department for Educa​tion and Skills81.750.00
Privy Council Office​81.750.00
The Insolvency Servi​ce73.600.00
Financial Services A​uthority66.4049.60
National Statistics24.030.00
Government Legal Ser​vice1.640.82
Invest to Save Budge​t1.410.00
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.000.00
Highways Agency 0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Highways Agency
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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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.

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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%
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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%