January 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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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 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
North Dakota State100.0014.17
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
Texas State100.000.00
Vermont State99.220.00
Maine State99.210.79
Montana State99.210.00
Rhode Island State99.200.00
Virginia State98.450.00
Oregon State98.400.00
Wisconsin State98.400.00
Kentucky State97.620.00
Washington State97.600.00
Ohio State97.560.00
Connecticut State96.850.00
Arizona State96.830.00
Michigan State96.830.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Georgia State96.000.00
New Hampshire State95.240.00
Arkansas State94.490.00
Massachusetts State94.400.00
Tennessee State92.003.20
Utah State86.400.00
Mississippi State84.130.00
New Jersey State83.200.00
Florida State77.780.00
Alaska State68.800.00
South Dakota State56.690.00
Wyoming State50.560.00
Illinois State48.000.00
Hawaii State39.203.20
Puerto Rico37.500.00
Maryland State28.800.00
Colorado State28.000.00
Kansas State27.200.00
Alabama State17.320.79
Indiana State8.800.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State4.760.00
Louisiana State3.330.00
New York State0.790.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
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
  • 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
  • Missouri State
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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.

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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%
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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%