October 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Oct 2007
- Total URLs tested:
47,761
- Total tests run:
15,569,775
- Total number of PDF's:
1,825
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.37%
- Pages failing code standards:
57.25%
- Pages missing a title:
0.96%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
9.35%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.09%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 63,148 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights (http://www.dca.gov.uk/peoples-rights/human-rights/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 88.37 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 87.40 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 77.17 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 69.05 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 60.63 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 57.14 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 52.80 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 27.20 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 21.26 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 17.60 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 5.56 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 3.10 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 99.20 | 3.20 |
| Planning Portal | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 99.18 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 98.40 | 71.20 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 1.59 |
| Home Office | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 93.75 | 3.12 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 31.75 |
| Ofcom | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 91.47 | 8.53 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 91.27 | 7.14 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 91.20 | 0.80 |
| NHS Direct | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 88.98 | 0.79 |
| Scottish National Party | 87.50 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 81.60 | 0.80 |
| Labour Party | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 70.40 | 48.80 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 67.20 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 17.83 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.63 | 0.81 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 1.41 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Central Office of Information
- Health & Safety Executive
- The Pension Service
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Community Interest Companies
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
21.3% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
28.67% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
18.12% |
| file/url/offtop None |
18.12% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
8.35% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.04% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.91% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
3.81% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.44% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.07% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.83% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
36.05% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
32.33% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.03% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.38% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.53% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.94% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.77% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.72% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.70% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.65% |