March 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
07 Mar 2008
- Total URLs tested:
50,717
- Total tests run:
16,537,001
- Total number of PDF's:
2,076
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.93%
- Pages failing code standards:
57.80%
- Pages missing a title:
0.80%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
10.70%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.61%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 52,791 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Small Business Service (http://www.sbs.gov.uk/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 93.60 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 74.02 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 72.44 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 70.40 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 66.40 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 66.14 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 54.40 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 54.33 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 36.80 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 21.88 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.00 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 10.32 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 3.17 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 98.43 | 5.51 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 98.43 | 0.79 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.60 | 63.20 |
| Conservative Party | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 95.24 | 15.87 |
| Ofcom | 95.24 | 2.38 |
| Ministry of Defence | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 31.75 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 85.04 | 0.79 |
| Public Record Office | 84.92 | 0.79 |
| Planning Portal | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 76.19 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 61.60 | 49.60 |
| National Statistics | 14.73 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Highways Agency
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
19.5% 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 |
27.81% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
20.77% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.78% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
6.67% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.81% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.08% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
3.04% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.84% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.60% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.46% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
31.25% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
31.21% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.97% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.09% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.23% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.08% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.63% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.37% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.99% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.04% |