November 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Nov 2007
- Total URLs tested:
49,555
- Total tests run:
16,148,379
- Total number of PDF's:
1,654
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.90%
- Pages failing code standards:
57.45%
- Pages missing a title:
0.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
9.78%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.50%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 91,562 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 | 99.21 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 97.62 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 83.33 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 78.74 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 76.00 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 66.93 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 62.20 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 45.24 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 100.00 | 28.12 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 22.22 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 17.60 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 3.91 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 3.88 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 3.88 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 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 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.62 | 64.29 |
| Department for International Development | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 92.19 | 0.78 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 91.41 | 7.81 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 86.61 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 80.80 | 0.80 |
| Labour Party | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 72.22 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 60.80 | 47.20 |
| Department for Transport | 38.76 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 18.75 | 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.
- Health & Safety Executive
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.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
18.6% 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 |
28.20% |
| file/url/offtop None |
20.15% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
17.70% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
6.63% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.88% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.74% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.62% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.29% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.82% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.77% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
39.32% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
35.60% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.32% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.00% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.83% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.34% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.55% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.49% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.27% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.56% |