April 2008/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
24 Apr 2008
- Total URLs tested:
30,578
- Total tests run:
9,966,320
- Total number of PDF's:
1,095
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.01%
- Pages failing code standards:
62.66%
- Pages missing a title:
0.55%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
20.60%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.82%
- Poorest code quality:
Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/) - 9,279 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Essex Police (http://www.essex.police.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 96.90 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 89.86 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 89.06 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 66.14 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 24.56 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 11.63 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Dorset Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 12.80 |
| City of London Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 98.40 | 31.20 |
| Wiltshire Police | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 93.02 | 65.89 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 92.86 | 3.97 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 91.27 | 19.05 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 90.62 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 84.00 | 1.60 |
| South Wales Police | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 77.52 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 75.40 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 70.08 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 62.20 | 1.57 |
| British Transport Police | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 1.56 | 0.78 |
| North Wales Police | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Non-Emergency Crime
PDF testing
20.5% 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/offtop None |
46.77% |
| file/url/badpath None |
15.30% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.92% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
5.88% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.64% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.48% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
4.25% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.35% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.29% |
| file/url/badquery None |
1.06% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
25.65% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
22.80% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
13.91% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
13.14% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
6.07% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.63% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.44% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.65% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.03% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.78% |