March 2008/US Gov State Governors



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    05 Mar 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    32,354

  • Total tests run:

    10,607,922

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,572

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.52%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    78.00%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.16%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    38.82%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.04%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Connecticut (http://www.ct.gov/governor/) - 15,986 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    New York (http://www.state.ny.us/governor/)




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
Maryland100.0015.08
Iowa100.003.17
Maine100.002.90
Washington100.000.79
Delaware100.000.00
Florida100.000.00
Nebraska100.000.00
New Hampshire100.000.00
New Jersey100.000.00
North Dakota100.000.00
Oregon100.000.00
Rhode Island100.000.00
Guam99.210.00
Massachusetts99.200.80
Utah99.200.00
Connecticut98.410.00
Montana97.620.00
Arizona97.140.00
Hawaii96.880.00
Michigan95.280.00
Vermont94.530.00
Georgia94.490.00
Wisconsin93.330.00
Texas89.060.00
Kansas88.0013.60
Kentucky87.500.00
Illinois81.370.00
Arkansas79.370.00
New Mexico78.570.00
Idaho77.950.00
Wyoming77.030.00
Colorado71.430.00
Alabama69.090.00
Oklahoma62.400.00
Mississippi56.000.00
North Carolina48.000.00
South Dakota47.200.00
California40.4811.11
Nevada35.710.00
Louisiana12.800.00
Minnesota6.400.00
Tennessee5.600.00
New York4.000.00
Pennsylvania3.330.00
Alaska2.380.00
Virgin Islands1.600.00
West Virginia1.590.00
Indiana0.790.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Ohio0.000.00
Puerto Rico0.000.00
South Carolina0.000.00
Virginia0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
  • Ohio
  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Puerto Rico
  • Virginia
  • South Carolina
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Missouri
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PDF testing

10.6% 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
38.72%
file/url/badquery
None
31.68%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
8.99%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.92%
file/html/longtitle
None
3.64%
file/url/badpath
None
3.15%
file/html/notitle
None
1.79%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.77%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.56%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.00%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
19.28%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
19.28%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
13.31%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
12.34%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
11.69%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
11.28%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.34%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.76%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.82%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.47%