January 2006/Government and Public Bodies



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Jan 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    -

  • Total tests run:

    -

  • Total number of PDF's:

    -

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    None%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    None%

  • Pages missing a title:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    None%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    None%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Department for Culture Media and Sport (http://www.culture.gov.uk/) - 12,472 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Health & Safety Executive (http://www.hse.gov.uk/)




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
Local e-Government P​rogramme100.0094.57
Government Communica​tion Network100.0081.40
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.00
Data Protection100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
Disability Rights Co​mmission100.000.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Home Office - Drugs100.000.00
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Office of the Deputy​ Prime Minister100.000.00
Office of the Inform​ation Commissioner100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
The Pension Service100.000.00
The Scottish Governm​ent100.000.00
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.000.00
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority100.000.00
Business Link99.220.00
Cabinet Office99.220.00
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct99.220.00
Department for Inter​national Development​99.220.00
Health &​ Safety Executive99.2165.87
Department for Work ​and Pensions99.2162.20
10 Downing Street99.210.00
GovTalk99.210.00
e-Government Unit99.210.00
Child Support Agency​99.201.60
Companies House99.200.00
Planning Portal97.640.79
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 97.640.00
Home Office97.620.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs97.600.00
UK Sport97.600.00
Human Rights96.830.00
HM Revenue &​ Customs96.090.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission95.310.00
Food Standards Agenc​y95.310.00
DTI - Innovation94.530.00
Met Office94.400.00
Resources93.700.00
MI592.860.00
Office of Fair Tradi​ng92.060.00
Department for Educa​tion and Skills88.890.00
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency88.100.00
Public Record Office​87.500.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds86.510.00
Privy Council Office​84.380.00
Transport for London​84.380.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs84.250.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service75.780.00
HM Prison Service65.080.00
Financial Services A​uthority61.4249.61
National Assembly fo​r Wales60.000.00
Jobcentre Plus51.200.00
UK Trade &​ Investment49.220.00
Worktrain4.760.00
Department of Trade ​&​ Industry3.150.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport3.120.00
Consumer Gateway2.360.79
Office of Science an​d Innovation1.600.00
Local Government Ass​ociation1.550.00
OGCbuying.solutions0.800.00
Ministry of Defence0.790.00
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.000.00
Invest to Save Budge​t0.000.00
NHS Direct0.000.00
National Statistics0.000.00
Wales Office0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Community Legal Service Direct
  • Central Office of Information
  • Department for Transport
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Invest to Save Budget
  • NHS Direct
  • National Statistics
  • Wales Office
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/offtop
None
31.11%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
19.52%
file/url/badquery
None
15.13%
file/html/metascheme
None
14.52%
file/html/badmeta
None
6.23%
file/html/longmeta
None
3.56%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.77%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.03%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.98%
file/url/badpath
None
0.92%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
22.58%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
16.93%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
12.27%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
11.52%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
10.73%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
8.01%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.82%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.20%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.76%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
0.70%