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UK Central Government August 2007

Department for Transport
Health & Safety Executive

Export Credits Guarantee Department

No sites were excluded from this index

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/)

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

	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%

	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%