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UK Local Government August 2007

Error free sites

  • Adur
  • Broxbourne
  • Caradon
  • Congleton
  • Derbyshire
  • East Hertfordshire
  • East Renfrewshire
  • Forest Heath
  • Hambleton
  • Melton
  • Merton
  • Portsmouth
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Restormel
  • Rhondda Cynon Taff
  • Runnymede
  • Rutland
  • Trafford
  • Tynedale
  • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Wear Valley
  • Wolverhampton

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Carrickfergus

Excluded from index

  • Clackmannanshire
  • Rochdale
  • South Lanarkshire

Index facts

Sites tested: 20 Aug 2007
Total URLs tested: 241,357
Total tests run: 78,532,805
Total number of PDF's: 3,530
URLs failing functional tests: 4.33
Pages failing code standards: 51.30
Pages missing a title: 0.76
Pages failing accessibility level A: 5.66
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 5.66
Poorest code quality: Carmarthenshire (http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/) - 1,472,155 failures
Fastest overall average response time: St Albans (http://www.stalbans.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.

24.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 50.24%
file/url/badpath 7.39%
file/url/badscheme 6.84%
url/fetch/notfound 6.36%
file/url/offtop 5.62%
url/fetch/badcookie 5.59%
url/fetch/noaddr 2.83%
url/mail/exception 2.67%
file/html/badmeta 1.96%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 1.74%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 33.53%
file/html/unknownentity 32.35%
file/html/tagnotallowed 23.35%
file/html/badvalue 2.75%
file/html/badattr 2.12%
file/html/closingunopened 1.81%
file/html/unknowntag 1.77%
file/html/missingclose 0.91%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.64%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.35%