January 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Jan 2008
- Total URLs tested:
52,209
- Total tests run:
17,024,137
- Total number of PDF's:
2,162
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.89%
- Pages failing code standards:
56.37%
- Pages missing a title:
0.81%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
9.96%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.55%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 72,547 failures
- Fastest average response time:
DTI - Innovation (http://www.innovation.gov.uk/)
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 | 100.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 90.55 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 79.07 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 75.40 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 72.22 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 66.67 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 64.29 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 31.78 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 24.80 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 24.41 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.00 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.94 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 3.88 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| 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 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 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 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 28.57 |
| Home Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 98.41 | 4.76 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| HM Prison Service | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 96.80 | 62.40 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 96.09 | 14.06 |
| Wales Office | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 30.71 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 92.25 | 7.75 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 89.15 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 81.60 | 0.80 |
| The Insolvency Service | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 63.20 | 48.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 36.43 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 20.93 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.63 | 0.81 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.93 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 2.34 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Central Office of Information
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
18.7% 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 |
25.35% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
21.23% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.17% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
9.72% |
| file/url/badpath None |
5.16% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
3.98% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.91% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.96% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.22% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.17% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
34.44% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
34.40% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.25% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.99% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.24% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.14% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.17% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.91% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.79% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.85% |