December 2007/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Dec 2007
- Total URLs tested:
52,321
- Total tests run:
17,053,959
- Total number of PDF's:
1,909
- URLs failing functional tests:
10.39%
- Pages failing code standards:
56.51%
- Pages missing a title:
1.46%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
9.19%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.56%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 111,275 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 | 96.09 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 76.19 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 75.78 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 62.70 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 52.80 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 47.62 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 100.00 | 22.40 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 19.53 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 18.11 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.00 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 9.52 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.72 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 3.97 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 3.10 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 2.38 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 10 Downing Street | 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 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 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 |
| Food Standards Agency | 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 |
| 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 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.21 | 52.76 |
| The Department of Health | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 98.40 | 58.40 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 7.14 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 95.35 | 3.10 |
| Transport for London | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 92.86 | 8.73 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 90.48 | 0.79 |
| NHS Direct | 88.98 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 87.50 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 83.20 | 0.80 |
| The Insolvency Service | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 68.80 | 57.60 |
| Department for Transport | 53.25 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 22.40 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.63 | 0.81 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 1.43 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| 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.
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
27.51% |
| file/url/badquery None |
18.89% |
| file/url/offtop None |
14.48% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
14.08% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
7.26% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.30% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.10% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.94% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.75% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.75% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.13% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.07% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.63% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.50% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.07% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.84% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.63% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.42% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.67% |