September 2007/US Gov State Governors



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    04 Sep 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    33,778

  • Total tests run:

    11,008,244

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,169

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.72%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    78.41%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.70%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    39.10%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.72%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Louisiana (http://www.gov.state.la.us/) - 33,175 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Rhode Island (http://www.governor.ri.gov/)




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
Maine100.001.56
Connecticut100.000.00
Delaware100.000.00
Florida100.000.00
Nebraska100.000.00
New Hampshire100.000.00
New Jersey100.000.00
North Dakota100.000.00
Oregon100.000.00
Rhode Island100.000.00
Utah99.220.00
Colorado99.210.00
Washington98.410.79
Ohio98.400.00
Montana97.6614.84
Michigan97.600.00
Pennsylvania96.830.00
Maryland96.8058.40
Texas93.600.00
Kansas92.2536.43
Kentucky92.130.00
American Samoa Gover​nment91.470.00
Massachusetts90.400.00
New Mexico88.890.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)85.600.00
Arizona84.000.00
Illinois80.900.00
Wisconsin80.000.00
Idaho78.120.00
Vermont76.000.00
Arkansas74.020.00
Guam66.930.00
Iowa63.490.00
Missouri60.320.00
Oklahoma58.270.00
South Dakota48.800.00
Hawaii42.400.00
Mississippi42.400.00
North Carolina40.000.00
California37.967.41
West Virginia6.980.00
Tennessee5.600.00
Louisiana4.800.00
Alaska4.000.00
Wyoming3.970.00
Indiana2.400.00
Minnesota1.590.00
Nevada1.590.00
New York1.590.00
Georgia0.790.00
Alabama0.000.00
Puerto Rico0.000.00
South Carolina0.000.00
Virgin Islands0.000.00
Virginia0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Puerto Rico
  • Alabama
  • Virginia
  • Virgin Islands
  • South Carolina
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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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PDF testing

30.5% 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
51.58%
file/url/offtop
None
12.17%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
9.48%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.23%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.92%
file/url/badpath
None
3.88%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.58%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.70%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.01%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.91%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
23.23%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
22.74%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
21.21%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
9.93%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.15%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.54%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.74%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.04%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.06%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.67%