October 2007/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    29 Oct 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    67,863

  • Total tests run:

    22,070,243

  • Total number of PDF's:

    568

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.58%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    78.43%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.66%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    28.76%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.66%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 41,663 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 State100.000.79
Arkansas State100.000.00
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
Pennsylvania State100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Texas State100.000.00
Vermont State99.220.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia99.200.00
Idaho State99.200.00
Oregon State99.200.00
Washington State99.200.00
Kentucky State98.410.79
New Hampshire State98.400.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Ohio State98.040.00
Virginia State97.670.00
Georgia State97.640.00
Montana State97.640.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Arizona State96.090.00
Maine State94.400.00
Utah State92.060.00
Massachusetts State91.410.78
Michigan State91.270.00
Tennessee State90.400.80
Connecticut State88.890.00
New Jersey State88.100.00
New Mexico State86.050.00
Alaska State76.000.00
Florida State67.200.00
Hawaii State64.000.00
South Dakota State57.600.00
Wyoming State50.000.00
Mississippi State30.950.00
Kansas State27.200.00
Illinois State26.190.00
Maryland State25.400.00
Colorado State24.000.00
Puerto Rico14.060.00
Indiana State11.900.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Alabama State3.150.79
Oklahoma State2.400.00
New York State0.800.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Louisiana State0.000.00
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.

  • American Samoa Government
  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Louisiana State
  • 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

12.3% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
57.04%
file/url/badpath
None
10.08%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
9.89%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
4.35%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
3.93%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.16%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
2.50%
file/url/offtop
None
1.27%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.26%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
0.93%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
33.83%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
30.42%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.28%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.62%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.35%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.50%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.77%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.48%
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%