January 2008/US Gov State and Territorial
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
28 Jan 2008
- Total URLs tested:
67,598
- Total tests run:
21,986,796
- Total number of PDF's:
671
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.94%
- Pages failing code standards:
84.00%
- Pages missing a title:
1.78%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
27.70%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.55%
- Poorest code quality:
Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 40,562 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Dakota State | 100.00 | 14.17 |
| California State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Delaware State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Guam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Idaho State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Iowa State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Minnesota State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Nebraska State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Pennsylvania State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Texas State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vermont State | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Maine State | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Montana State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Rhode Island State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Virginia State | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Oregon State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wisconsin State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Kentucky State | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Washington State | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ohio State | 97.56 | 0.00 |
| Connecticut State | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Arizona State | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Michigan State | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| North Carolina State | 96.15 | 0.00 |
| Georgia State | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| New Hampshire State | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Arkansas State | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts State | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Tennessee State | 92.00 | 3.20 |
| Utah State | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Mississippi State | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| New Jersey State | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Florida State | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Alaska State | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| South Dakota State | 56.69 | 0.00 |
| Wyoming State | 50.56 | 0.00 |
| Illinois State | 48.00 | 0.00 |
| Hawaii State | 39.20 | 3.20 |
| Puerto Rico | 37.50 | 0.00 |
| Maryland State | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| Colorado State | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Kansas State | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Alabama State | 17.32 | 0.79 |
| Indiana State | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Nevada State | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Oklahoma State | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Louisiana State | 3.33 | 0.00 |
| New York State | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| American Samoa Government | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| District of Columbia (D.C.) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| West Virginia State | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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
- West Virginia State
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- South Carolina State
- New Mexico State
- Virgin Islands
- Missouri State
PDF testing
18.8% 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 |
55.11% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
10.83% |
| file/url/badpath None |
9.15% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
5.69% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.37% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.15% |
| file/url/offtop None |
2.21% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.27% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.17% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.11% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.91% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
32.88% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.42% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.06% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.56% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.60% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.81% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.14% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.54% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.44% |