UK Local Government February 2008

Error free sites

  • Barking & Dagenham
  • Bassetlaw
  • Bracknell Forest
  • Bradford
  • Caradon
  • Derbyshire
  • Easington
  • Elmbridge
  • Herefordshire
  • Hyndburn
  • Mid Bedfordshire
  • North Down
  • Redbridge
  • South Bedfordshire
  • South Ribble
  • St Helens
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Teignbridge
  • Thurrock
  • West Dunbartonshire
  • Wirral
  • Wolverhampton

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Fermanagh

Excluded from index

  • No sites were excluded from this index

Index facts

Sites tested: 20 Feb 2008
Total URLs tested: 251,528
Total tests run: 81,852,810
Total number of PDF's: 4,085
URLs failing functional tests: 4.38
Pages failing code standards: 51.85
Pages missing a title: 0.46
Pages failing accessibility level A: 4.63
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 4.63
Poorest code quality: Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 44,058 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Newry and Mourne (http://www.newryandmourne.gov.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

26.5% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 42.38%
file/url/offtop 13.77%
url/fetch/notfound 7.21%
file/url/badscheme 6.80%
file/url/badpath 6.19%
url/fetch/badcookie 5.03%
url/fetch/noaddr 2.55%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.37%
url/mail/badsmtp 2.19%
file/html/badmeta 2.14%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 26.23%
file/html/unknownentity 26.17%
file/html/tagnotallowed 12.36%
file/html/badvalue 9.32%
file/html/badattr 7.03%
file/html/closingunopened 5.81%
file/html/unknowntag 5.60%
file/html/missingclose 2.91%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.72%
file/html/repeatedattr 1.37%

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