September 2007/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    28 Sep 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,191

  • Total tests run:

    22,501,037

  • Total number of PDF's:

    537

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.89%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    79.57%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.49%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    26.40%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.66%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 42,515 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
North Dakota State100.0013.49
Missouri State100.000.80
Arkansas State100.000.00
California State100.000.00
Delaware 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
Kentucky State99.220.00
Vermont State99.210.00
Rhode Island State99.200.00
Washington State99.200.00
Oregon State98.410.00
Montana State98.400.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Ohio State98.040.00
Virginia State97.670.00
Maine State97.600.80
North Carolina State​96.150.00
American Samoa Gover​nment96.060.00
Connecticut State96.030.00
New Hampshire State96.030.00
Arizona State96.000.00
Massachusetts State96.000.00
Utah State95.240.00
Michigan State95.200.00
Georgia State94.570.00
Tennessee State91.201.60
New Mexico State85.270.00
New Jersey State71.430.00
Alaska State59.200.00
South Dakota State58.400.00
Wyoming State50.000.00
Hawaii State43.750.00
Mississippi State38.890.00
Puerto Rico34.920.00
Illinois State28.350.00
Kansas State26.400.00
Maryland State25.980.00
Colorado State18.250.00
Indiana State10.240.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Louisiana State4.000.00
Oklahoma State3.940.00
Alabama State3.200.80
New York State0.790.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
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.

  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • 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
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PDF testing

11.9% 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
52.62%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
10.49%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
10.13%
file/url/badpath
None
9.09%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
4.09%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.54%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
3.16%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.15%
file/url/offtop
None
0.89%
file/html/notitle
None
0.78%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
33.25%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
30.58%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.46%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.74%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.33%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.55%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.82%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.53%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.56%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.53%