October 2007/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    23 Oct 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    27,021

  • Total tests run:

    8,802,755

  • Total number of PDF's:

    805

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.73%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    60.20%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.50%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    21.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    91.42%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Kent Police (http://www.kent.police.uk/) - 7,849 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    British Transport Police (http://www.btp.police.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
Gwent Police100.0094.53
Derbyshire Constabul​ary100.0093.65
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.0089.71
Leicestershire Const​abulary100.0064.80
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.0020.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e100.0012.60
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.000.80
Greater Manchester P​olice100.000.80
Cleveland Police100.000.79
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Durham Constabulary100.000.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry100.000.00
Humberside Police100.000.00
Northern Constabular​y100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
Bedfordshire Police99.220.00
Lancashire Police99.220.00
Fife Constabulary98.450.00
Northumbria Police98.450.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force98.450.00
City of London Polic​e98.440.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce98.4077.60
Cheshire Police97.6275.40
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce97.600.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police97.600.00
Wiltshire Police96.850.00
Association of Polic​e Authorities96.830.00
Grampian Police96.030.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry96.004.80
West Midlands Police​96.000.00
Kent Police95.240.00
Norfolk Constabulary​94.530.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary94.440.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​89.680.00
Cumbria Police87.200.00
South Wales Police87.200.00
Strathclyde Police86.050.00
Essex Police85.946.25
Metropolitan Police ​Service84.800.00
Staffordshire Police​79.530.00
Sussex Police79.200.00
Lincolnshire Police76.740.00
Surrey Police73.230.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce70.400.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary65.600.00
British Transport Po​lice56.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice56.000.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary12.700.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce11.200.00
Dorset Police10.400.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary6.400.00
North Wales Police2.380.00
Merseyside Police1.590.00
Thames Valley Police​1.590.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice0.000.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Central Scotland Police
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Non-Emergency Crime
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PDF testing

15.2% 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/offtop
None
50.67%
file/url/badpath
None
13.12%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
7.21%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
7.17%
file/html/longmeta
None
6.32%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.93%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
2.29%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.25%
file/url/badquery
None
1.36%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.07%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
22.98%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
19.52%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
17.45%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
14.09%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.96%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.81%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.34%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.27%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.91%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.70%