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UK Central Government August 2007

Error free sites

  • Department for Transport
  • Health & Safety Executive

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Export Credits Guarantee Department

Excluded from index

  • No sites were excluded from this index

Index facts

Sites tested: 10 Aug 2007
Total URLs tested: 45,754
Total tests run: 14,926,808
Total number of PDF's: 2,183
URLs failing functional tests: 5.85
Pages failing code standards: 55.98
Pages missing a title: 0.87
Pages failing accessibility level A: 8.41
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 8.41
Poorest code quality: Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 84,724 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Government Communication Network (http://www.comms.gov.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

17.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 23.55%
file/url/offtop 18.46%
url/fetch/notfound 15.57%
url/mail/exception 11.27%
file/html/badmeta 6.82%
url/fetch/noaddr 5.20%
url/fetch/exception 3.51%
file/html/longmeta 2.81%
url/mail/badsmtp 2.76%
file/html/longtitle 2.48%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 37.77%
file/html/unknownentity 34.30%
file/html/tagnotallowed 9.35%
file/html/badvalue 4.91%
file/html/badattr 4.56%
file/html/missingclose 2.83%
file/html/repeatedattr 1.92%
file/html/unknowntag 1.54%
file/html/closingunopened 1.50%
url/fetch/moved 0.53%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford