August 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
87.64%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 84,724 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 92.06 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 90.62 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 81.25 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 74.40 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 67.19 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 65.08 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 53.91 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 18.75 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 3.94 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 2.36 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 2.33 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| 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 |
| Community Interest Companies | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government Communication Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 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 |
| Local Government Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 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 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.60 | 66.40 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 95.31 | 0.78 |
| Commission for Equality and Human Rights | 95.28 | 60.63 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 93.65 | 5.56 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Transport for London | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 82.54 | 0.79 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 60.00 | 52.80 |
| National Statistics | 38.28 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 1.41 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Department for Transport
- Health & Safety Executive
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
17.6% 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 |
23.55% |
| file/url/offtop None |
18.46% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
15.57% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
11.27% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
6.82% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.20% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
3.51% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.81% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.76% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.48% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.77% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
34.30% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.35% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.91% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.56% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.83% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.92% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.54% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.50% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.53% |