August 2007/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    29 Aug 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    66,822

  • Total tests run:

    21,733,452

  • Total number of PDF's:

    627

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.46%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    79.65%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.91%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    27.03%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.65%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 90,033 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
Missouri State100.000.80
Arkansas State100.000.00
California State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Florida State100.000.00
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
North Dakota State99.2113.49
Montana State99.210.00
Rhode Island State99.200.00
Washington State99.200.00
Maine State98.410.79
Indiana State98.400.00
Kentucky State98.400.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Ohio State97.960.00
Virginia State97.670.00
New Jersey State97.640.00
Georgia State96.880.00
Delaware State96.830.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Arizona State96.030.00
Connecticut State95.240.00
Tennessee State92.800.80
Massachusetts State92.060.00
Michigan State92.000.00
New Hampshire State88.100.00
New Mexico State85.040.00
Utah State82.400.00
Oregon State65.080.00
South Dakota State61.600.00
Alaska State59.200.00
Wyoming State48.310.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)44.440.00
Hawaii State40.620.78
Puerto Rico38.400.00
Illinois State37.600.00
Kansas State20.800.00
Maryland State19.050.00
Colorado State16.000.00
Oklahoma State15.750.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Louisiana State3.850.00
Alabama State3.200.80
Vermont State1.140.00
New York State0.800.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.790.00
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
  • Mississippi State
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PDF testing

11.5% 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
78.44%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.73%
file/url/badpath
None
4.37%
file/url/badfragment
None
2.02%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
1.95%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.76%
file/url/offtop
None
1.29%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
0.60%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
0.54%
file/html/notitle
None
0.53%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
28.89%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
26.48%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
11.93%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.20%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
7.80%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.63%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.83%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.40%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.62%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.55%