November 2007/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    28 Nov 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,543

  • Total tests run:

    22,627,475

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,000

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    7.98%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    81.09%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.46%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    28.64%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.65%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 45,025 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    New York State (http://www.state.ny.us/)




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
Missouri State100.000.79
Arkansas State100.000.00
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
Pennsylvania State100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Texas State100.000.00
North Dakota State99.2114.29
Oregon State99.210.00
Vermont State99.210.00
Washington State99.210.00
Virginia State98.450.00
Kentucky State98.400.00
Montana State98.400.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Ohio State97.500.00
Massachusetts State96.830.79
New Hampshire State96.830.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Georgia State96.060.00
Tennessee State96.030.79
Arizona State96.000.00
Connecticut State96.000.00
Michigan State95.280.00
Maine State93.650.00
Utah State86.400.00
Florida State70.400.00
Hawaii State64.340.00
Alaska State57.600.00
South Dakota State52.800.00
Wyoming State50.560.00
New Jersey State48.800.00
Mississippi State46.030.00
Illinois State39.200.00
Puerto Rico36.210.00
Colorado State27.200.00
Maryland State25.400.00
Kansas State23.200.00
Alabama State14.730.78
Oklahoma State10.240.00
Indiana State9.450.00
Nevada State6.670.00
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
  • New Mexico State
  • Virgin Islands
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PDF testing

31.0% 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
53.10%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.93%
file/url/badpath
None
8.33%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
6.82%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
5.30%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
4.17%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
3.50%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.51%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.53%
file/url/badfragment
None
1.40%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
31.54%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
31.52%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.36%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.14%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.08%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.59%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
4.31%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.74%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.55%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.45%