September 2007/Government and Public Bodies



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    07 Sep 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    45,295

  • Total tests run:

    14,775,631

  • Total number of PDF's:

    2,106

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.96%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    56.12%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.90%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    9.05%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    88.24%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 88,415 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    The Insolvency Service (http://www.insolvency.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
IDeA Knowledge100.0089.06
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.0085.27
The Pension Service100.0074.60
Office of the First ​Minister and Deputy ​First Minister100.0060.32
The Scottish Governm​ent100.0057.03
Child Support Agency​100.0055.91
Directgov Jobs and S​kills100.0053.17
Disability Rights Co​mmission100.0049.61
National Assembly fo​r Wales100.0017.46
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.0015.20
Information Commissi​oner's Office100.0010.08
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency100.008.66
Department for Const​itutional Affairs100.007.20
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.006.40
OGCbuying.solutions100.005.56
UK Sport100.004.00
MI5100.003.97
Planning Portal100.000.80
10 Downing Street100.000.00
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Charter Mark100.000.00
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.00
Community Interest C​ompanies100.000.00
Department for Busin​ess, Enterprise and ​Regulatory Reform100.000.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs - ​People's Rights100.000.00
Department for Inter​national Development​100.000.00
Government Communica​tion Network100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Home Office - Drugs100.000.00
Local Government Ass​ociation100.000.00
Met Office100.000.00
Museums, Libraries a​nd Archives Council100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 100.000.00
Welsh Assembly Gover​nment100.000.00
e-Government Unit100.000.00
Department for Trans​port99.220.00
Food Standards Agenc​y99.210.00
Home Office99.210.00
UK Trade &​ Investment99.210.00
Health &​ Safety Executive99.2096.80
Companies House99.200.00
DTI - Innovation99.200.00
GovTalk99.200.00
Office of Science an​d Innovation 99.200.00
Department for Work ​and Pensions98.4160.32
HM Revenue &​ Customs98.410.00
Business Link98.400.00
Ministry of Defence98.400.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service97.620.00
Human Rights97.600.00
Office of Fair Tradi​ng96.830.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport96.800.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission96.062.36
Commission for Equal​ity and Human Rights​96.0365.08
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct96.030.00
Wales Office96.030.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds96.000.00
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority95.450.00
Ofcom95.280.00
HM Prison Service94.400.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs93.755.47
Fire Gateway 92.9132.28
Department for Educa​tion and Skills92.800.80
Transport for London​91.200.00
NHS Direct89.600.00
Jobcentre Plus84.920.00
Privy Council Office​82.400.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​80.950.00
The Insolvency Servi​ce80.800.00
Public Record Office​79.200.80
Financial Services A​uthority59.2051.20
Department for Commu​nities and Local Gov​ernment45.740.00
National Statistics21.710.00
Government Legal Ser​vice1.640.82
Invest to Save Budge​t1.410.00
Highways Agency 0.000.80
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Central Office of Information
  • Child Support Agency
  • 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
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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

19.1% 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
23.77%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
15.68%
file/url/offtop
None
13.71%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
10.96%
file/html/badmeta
None
7.21%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
5.20%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
4.97%
file/html/longtitle
None
3.10%
file/html/longmeta
None
2.96%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
2.71%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
39.78%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
35.48%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.64%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
4.60%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.05%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.40%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.78%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.70%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
1.23%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.52%