January 2008/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    25 Jan 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    29,605

  • Total tests run:

    9,644,323

  • Total number of PDF's:

    873

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    7.08%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    59.31%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.99%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    19.92%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    91.71%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/) - 8,791 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.gov.uk/)




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
Gwent Police100.0095.28
Derbyshire Constabul​ary100.0092.80
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.0088.57
Leicestershire Const​abulary100.0068.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce100.0016.67
Greater Manchester P​olice100.000.78
Dorset Police100.000.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce100.000.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry100.000.00
Humberside Police100.000.00
Lancashire Police100.000.00
Northern Constabular​y100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e99.223.88
City of London Polic​e99.220.00
Fife Constabulary99.220.00
Northumbria Police99.220.00
Bedfordshire Police99.2033.60
Cleveland Police99.200.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police99.200.00
Cheshire Police98.4173.81
Wiltshire Police98.400.00
Durham Constabulary96.830.00
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency96.7720.97
West Mercia Constabu​lary95.280.00
Grampian Police95.240.00
Kent Police95.200.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry94.444.76
Norfolk Constabulary​94.400.00
West Midlands Police​94.400.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force93.800.00
South Wales Police93.600.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​89.920.00
Association of Polic​e Authorities89.760.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice87.503.12
Essex Police86.4015.20
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary84.130.00
Strathclyde Police84.000.00
Surrey Police83.200.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service82.400.00
Cumbria Police80.001.60
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce78.400.00
Staffordshire Police​76.190.00
Sussex Police72.221.59
Lincolnshire Police71.320.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary62.500.00
British Transport Po​lice57.600.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce14.400.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice7.943.97
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary5.600.00
Merseyside Police1.600.00
Thames Valley Police​1.590.00
North Wales Police0.780.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary0.000.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Non-Emergency Crime
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PDF testing

17.0% 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/offtop
None
48.95%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
11.98%
file/url/badpath
None
7.07%
file/html/longmeta
None
6.65%
file/html/badmeta
None
5.18%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
4.95%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.87%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
2.12%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.89%
file/html/notitle
None
1.48%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
22.27%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
22.05%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
16.34%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
15.87%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.19%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.87%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.79%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.84%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.88%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
1.04%