April 2008/US Gov State Governors



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    07 Apr 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    44,870

  • Total tests run:

    14,676,818

  • Total number of PDF's:

    3,618

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.83%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    80.03%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.22%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    36.81%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.08%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Connecticut (http://www.ct.gov/governor/) - 18,953 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Rhode Island (http://www.governor.ri.gov/)




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
Maryland100.008.80
Iowa100.003.97
Washington100.000.80
Florida100.000.00
Maine100.000.00
Nebraska100.000.00
New Jersey100.000.00
North Dakota100.000.00
Oregon100.000.00
Kansas99.219.52
Delaware99.210.00
Utah99.210.00
Connecticut99.200.00
Hawaii99.200.00
Guam98.430.00
New Hampshire98.410.00
Massachusetts98.401.60
Montana97.620.00
Arizona96.970.00
Rhode Island96.610.00
Michigan94.530.00
Vermont94.490.00
Georgia93.750.00
Texas93.700.00
Arkansas92.910.00
Kentucky84.000.00
Illinois81.550.00
New York80.950.00
Wisconsin80.000.00
Wyoming77.940.00
Idaho76.380.00
New Mexico76.190.00
Oklahoma73.020.00
Colorado71.430.00
Mississippi63.490.00
North Carolina48.000.00
South Dakota48.000.00
Nevada37.010.00
Alabama36.510.00
California34.6519.69
Louisiana20.630.00
Minnesota5.600.00
Tennessee5.560.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)4.760.00
Virginia4.760.00
Pennsylvania3.330.00
Alaska3.170.00
West Virginia2.400.00
Indiana0.800.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
Ohio0.000.00
Puerto Rico0.000.00
South Carolina0.000.00
Virgin Islands0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
  • Ohio
  • Puerto Rico
  • Virgin Islands
  • South Carolina
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Missouri
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PDF testing

10.7% 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
36.13%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
15.91%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
14.97%
file/url/offtop
None
8.31%
file/url/badpath
None
4.31%
file/html/badmeta
None
3.97%
file/html/longtitle
None
2.80%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
2.43%
file/html/notitle
None
2.11%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.00%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
19.16%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
19.04%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
17.17%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
12.32%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
10.85%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.78%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.73%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.25%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.76%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.44%