April 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Apr 2008
- Total URLs tested:
50,550
- Total tests run:
16,484,702
- Total number of PDF's:
2,152
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.50%
- Pages failing code standards:
56.98%
- Pages missing a title:
0.70%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
10.41%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.21%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 60,951 failures
- Fastest average response time:
DTI - Innovation (http://www.innovation.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 | 100.00 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 99.21 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 88.10 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 80.16 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 76.38 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 75.78 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 73.81 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 61.90 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 55.04 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 30.23 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 25.98 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 17.60 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 9.38 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 100.00 | 6.35 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 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 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.06 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.85 | 0.79 |
| Business Link | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 96.80 | 64.80 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 94.44 | 15.08 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 31.75 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 92.13 | 0.79 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 86.40 | 0.80 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 84.13 | 1.59 |
| Labour Party | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 79.37 | 0.79 |
| Department for Transport | 53.12 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 52.80 | 38.40 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 35.71 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 12.40 | 1.55 |
| 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 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Government News Network
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
16.2% 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.
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
25.09% |
| file/url/badquery None |
17.69% |
| file/url/offtop None |
15.42% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.78% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
5.26% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
5.10% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.71% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.39% |
| file/url/badpath None |
3.00% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.88% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
34.72% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
34.66% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
11.47% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.79% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.53% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.20% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.05% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.03% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.88% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.85% |