March 2006/Government and Public Bodies



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    06 Mar 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    -

  • Total tests run:

    -

  • Total number of PDF's:

    -

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    None%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    None%

  • Pages missing a title:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    None%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Resources (http://www.resource.gov.uk/) - 20,580 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Financial Services Authority (http://www.fsa.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
Directgov Jobs and S​kills100.0091.46
Child Support Agency​100.0085.16
Local e-Government P​rogramme100.0081.75
Government Communica​tion Network100.0079.07
Health &​ Safety Executive100.0058.40
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.78
Cabinet Office100.000.00
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Data Protection100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Office of the Deputy​ Prime Minister100.000.00
Office of the Inform​ation Commissioner100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
The Scottish Governm​ent100.000.00
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.000.00
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority100.000.00
e-Government Unit100.000.00
Resources99.220.00
10 Downing Street99.210.00
Business Link99.210.00
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct99.210.00
Home Office - Drugs99.210.00
Companies House99.200.00
GovTalk99.200.00
UK Trade &​ Investment99.200.00
HM Revenue &​ Customs98.410.00
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 98.410.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs97.640.00
Department for Inter​national Development​97.640.00
Food Standards Agenc​y97.640.00
The Pension Service97.640.00
Planning Portal97.620.79
UK Sport97.600.00
Home Office96.880.00
Ministry of Defence96.880.00
Human Rights96.800.00
Disability Rights Co​mmission96.060.00
DTI - Innovation95.240.00
Department for Work ​and Pensions93.7539.06
Met Office93.650.00
MI592.970.00
Office of Fair Tradi​ng92.970.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs91.200.00
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency90.480.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission86.720.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds84.920.00
Department for Educa​tion and Skills84.920.00
Privy Council Office​84.380.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service83.590.00
Public Record Office​83.330.00
Transport for London​82.810.00
HM Prison Service75.780.00
IDeA Knowledge66.930.00
National Assembly fo​r Wales65.870.00
Financial Services A​uthority63.2048.00
Jobcentre Plus43.650.00
OGCbuying.solutions38.100.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport5.430.78
Department of Trade ​&​ Industry4.760.00
Wales Office3.120.00
Office of Science an​d Innovation2.380.00
Consumer Gateway2.360.79
Local Government Ass​ociation1.550.00
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.000.00
Invest to Save Budge​t0.000.00
NHS Direct0.000.00
National Statistics0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Directgov Jobs and Skills
  • Community Legal Service Direct
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Invest to Save Budget
  • NHS Direct
  • National Statistics
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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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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
45.36%
file/url/offtop
None
20.14%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
11.52%
file/html/metascheme
None
8.87%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.59%
file/html/longmeta
None
2.06%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.78%
file/url/badpath
None
1.55%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.91%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.67%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
22.42%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
17.03%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
12.50%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
12.45%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
11.19%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
7.77%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.21%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.67%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.68%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
0.72%