July 2007/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    30 Jul 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,303

  • Total tests run:

    22,537,411

  • Total number of PDF's:

    536

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.29%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    80.93%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.82%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    29.27%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.69%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 50,282 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)




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
North Dakota State100.0013.39
Missouri State100.000.79
Arkansas State100.000.00
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
Pennsylvania State100.000.00
Texas State100.000.00
Kentucky State99.220.00
Maine State99.210.00
Montana State99.210.00
Rhode Island State99.210.00
Washington State99.210.00
Virginia State98.450.00
New Hampshire State98.430.00
Indiana State98.410.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Ohio State97.960.00
Arizona State96.800.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Florida State96.000.00
Georgia State96.000.00
Connecticut State95.240.00
Michigan State94.490.00
Massachusetts State92.910.00
Tennessee State90.480.79
New Mexico State83.460.00
Utah State78.400.00
New Jersey State65.350.00
Oregon State65.080.00
South Dakota State60.000.00
Alaska State58.730.00
Hawaii State53.970.00
Wyoming State48.310.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)36.000.00
Mississippi State35.430.00
Illinois State34.920.00
Kansas State23.020.00
Maryland State19.690.00
Oklahoma State17.320.00
Puerto Rico11.900.00
Colorado State8.000.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Alabama State3.200.80
Louisiana State1.430.00
Vermont State1.120.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.790.00
New York State0.790.00
Northern Mariana Isl​ands0.000.00
West Virginia State0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • West Virginia State
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • South Carolina State
  • Virgin Islands
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PDF testing

15.3% 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
64.79%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
10.72%
file/url/badpath
None
9.12%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.30%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
3.24%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.21%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.02%
file/html/notitle
None
0.95%
file/url/badfragment
None
0.93%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
0.87%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
30.03%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
26.84%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.91%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
9.41%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
7.96%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.59%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
5.31%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.94%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.73%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.57%