April 2008/US Gov Federal Agencies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
24 Apr 2008
- Total URLs tested:
247,528
- Total tests run:
80,904,148
- Total number of PDF's:
17,598
- URLs failing functional tests:
7.53%
- Pages failing code standards:
83.71%
- Pages missing a title:
2.46%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
35.63%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.36%
- Poorest code quality:
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 128,544 failures
- Fastest average response time:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (http://www.nasa.gov/)
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 |
---|---|---|
Morris K. Udall Foundation | 100.00 | 28.91 |
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) | 100.00 | 5.56 |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | 100.00 | 1.57 |
Tax Court | 100.00 | 1.33 |
Commission of Fine Arts | 100.00 | 0.79 |
Customs and Border Protection | 100.00 | 0.79 |
Defense Commissary Agency | 100.00 | 0.78 |
Appalachian Regional Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (Treasury) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Public Debt | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Chief Human Capital Officers Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Defense Security Service (DSS) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Department of Education (ED) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Election Assistance Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Farm Credit Administration | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Consulting Group | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Executive Boards | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Railroad Administration | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board | 100.00 | 0.00 |
General Services Administration (GSA) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Geological Survey (USGS) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
HELP Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Health and Human Services Department (HHS) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
National Labor Relations Board | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Office of Compliance | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Office of Science and Technology Policy | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Office of Textiles and Apparel | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Regulatory Information Service Center | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Research and Innovative Technology Administration | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Risk Management Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Secret Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Superfund Basic Research Program | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Transportation Command | 100.00 | 0.00 |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | 100.00 | 0.00 |
U.S. Postal Service (USPS) | 99.22 | 0.00 |
Court of Federal Claims | 99.21 | 7.14 |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | 99.21 | 0.00 |
Federal Highway Administration | 99.21 | 0.00 |
National Cemetery Administration (Veterans Affairs Department) | 99.21 | 0.00 |
Office of Personnel Management | 99.21 | 0.00 |
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | 99.21 | 0.00 |
U.S. Mint | 99.21 | 0.00 |
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Federal Election Commission | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Government Accountability Office (GAO) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Social Security Administration (SSA) | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Marine Mammal Commission | 98.77 | 0.00 |
International Trade Administration (ITA) | 98.44 | 0.00 |
Department of the Treasury | 98.43 | 0.00 |
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | 98.43 | 0.00 |
Bureau of the Census | 98.41 | 0.00 |
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims | 98.41 | 0.00 |
Department of Transportation (DOT) | 98.41 | 0.00 |
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | 98.41 | 0.00 |
Marine Corps | 98.41 | 0.00 |
U.S. Trade and Development Agency | 98.41 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Commodity Futures Trading Commission | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Defense Contract Management Agency | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Department of Labor (DOL) | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Federal Transit Administration | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Financial Management Service (Treasury Department) | 98.40 | 0.00 |
National Ocean Service | 97.66 | 0.00 |
Federal Reserve System | 97.64 | 0.00 |
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee | 97.62 | 0.00 |
National Mediation Board | 97.62 | 0.00 |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 97.62 | 0.00 |
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Government Printing Office (GPO) | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Office of Government Ethics | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | 96.88 | 0.00 |
Office of Scientific and Technical Information | 96.88 | 0.00 |
National Council on Disability | 96.83 | 0.00 |
Rural Development | 96.83 | 0.00 |
National Capital Planning Commission | 96.80 | 0.80 |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | 96.80 | 0.80 |
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Chief Information Officers Council | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Department of the Interior (DOI) | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Joint Forces Command | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Natural Resources Conservation Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Merit Systems Protection Board | 96.30 | 0.00 |
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation | 96.06 | 0.00 |
Coalition Provisional Authority (in Iraq) | 96.03 | 0.00 |
Patent and Trademark Office | 96.03 | 0.00 |
National Security Agency (NSA) | 96.00 | 0.80 |
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | 96.00 | 0.00 |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Postal Rate Commission | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Industry and Security | 95.24 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Labor Statistics | 95.24 | 0.00 |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | 95.24 | 0.00 |
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 95.24 | 0.00 |
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) | 94.40 | 34.40 |
U.S. Sentencing Commission | 94.40 | 5.60 |
Comptroller of the Currency Office | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Library of Congress | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Armed Forces Retirement Home | 94.37 | 1.41 |
Social Security Advisory Board | 93.75 | 0.00 |
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) | 93.70 | 0.00 |
National Gallery of Art | 93.65 | 0.00 |
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Federal Housing Finance Board | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Technology Administration | 93.60 | 0.00 |
National Guard | 92.97 | 0.00 |
Legal Services Corporation | 92.91 | 0.00 |
Federal Labor Relations Authority | 92.13 | 0.00 |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Mine Safety and Health Administration | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council | 91.34 | 0.79 |
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) | 91.27 | 0.00 |
Supreme Court of the United States | 91.27 | 0.00 |
Employment and Training Administration | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight | 91.20 | 0.00 |
U.S. International Trade Commission | 91.20 | 0.00 |
House Office of the Clerk | 90.48 | 0.00 |
National Credit Union Administration | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Tennessee Valley Authority | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) | 89.84 | 0.00 |
Botanic Garden | 89.60 | 0.80 |
Agency for International Development | 88.98 | 0.00 |
National Transportation Safety Board | 88.89 | 0.00 |
Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC) | 88.80 | 0.00 |
Institute of Museum and Library Services | 88.80 | 0.00 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | 88.00 | 0.00 |
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | 87.50 | 0.00 |
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | 87.50 | 0.00 |
Veterans Benefits Administration | 87.20 | 0.00 |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 86.72 | 0.78 |
Bureau of Reclamation | 86.40 | 1.60 |
Indian Health Service | 86.40 | 0.00 |
Maritime Administration | 85.71 | 0.00 |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 85.60 | 3.20 |
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces | 85.60 | 0.00 |
Forest Service | 85.16 | 0.78 |
Minority Business Development Agency | 84.92 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Engraving and Printing | 84.80 | 0.00 |
Japan-United States Friendship Commission | 84.72 | 0.00 |
Citizens' Health Care Working Group | 84.25 | 0.00 |
Commission on Civil Rights | 84.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer | 84.00 | 0.00 |
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | 84.00 | 0.00 |
Economics and Statistics Administration | 83.64 | 0.91 |
Archives (National Archives and Records Administration) | 83.46 | 0.79 |
National Park Service | 83.46 | 0.00 |
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia | 83.33 | 1.59 |
Coast Guard | 83.33 | 0.00 |
Endangered Species Committee | 83.33 | 0.00 |
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | 83.33 | 0.00 |
Office of Special Counsel | 83.20 | 0.00 |
Economic Development Administration | 82.40 | 0.00 |
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) | 81.75 | 0.00 |
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) | 81.75 | 0.00 |
Small Business Administration (SBA) | 81.60 | 0.00 |
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation | 80.95 | 0.00 |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 80.82 | 36.99 |
Defense Technical Information Center | 78.57 | 0.00 |
House of Representatives | 78.57 | 0.00 |
Administration on Aging (AoA) | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission | 77.87 | 3.28 |
White House | 77.17 | 0.00 |
Surface Transportation Board | 76.00 | 0.80 |
Copyright Office (Library of Congress) | 76.00 | 0.00 |
Farm Service Agency | 76.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy | 75.78 | 0.00 |
Court of International Trade | 73.60 | 0.00 |
Federal Financing Bank | 72.50 | 0.00 |
Fish and Wildlife Service | 72.22 | 0.00 |
Director of National Intelligence | 72.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | 70.87 | 0.00 |
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled | 70.40 | 0.00 |
Military Postal Service Agency | 69.60 | 1.60 |
American Battle Monuments Commission | 69.60 | 0.00 |
Federal Library and Information Center Committee | 69.60 | 0.00 |
African Development Foundation | 68.80 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Justice) | 64.29 | 0.00 |
Transportation Security Administration | 64.00 | 16.80 |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry | 63.78 | 0.00 |
Department of Commerce (DOC) | 63.49 | 0.00 |
National Endowment for the Humanities | 62.99 | 0.79 |
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 62.50 | 0.00 |
National Science Foundation | 61.72 | 0.00 |
National Weather Service | 61.72 | 0.00 |
National Interagency Fire Center | 61.60 | 0.00 |
Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement | 60.80 | 0.00 |
Denali Commission | 59.20 | 0.00 |
National Marine Fisheries | 58.73 | 0.00 |
Mississippi River Commission | 57.60 | 0.80 |
Smithsonian Institution | 56.80 | 0.00 |
Science Office (Energy Department) | 56.00 | 0.00 |
Health Resources and Services Administration | 55.20 | 0.00 |
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission | 53.60 | 0.00 |
Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group | 52.38 | 1.59 |
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation | 51.28 | 0.00 |
National Defense University | 50.40 | 0.00 |
Army | 49.60 | 1.60 |
Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) | 49.25 | 0.00 |
Office of Thrift Supervision | 48.44 | 0.00 |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) | 48.00 | 2.40 |
National Technical Information Service | 46.83 | 0.00 |
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science | 44.80 | 0.00 |
Energy Department (DOE) | 44.44 | 0.00 |
Energy Information Administration | 44.00 | 0.00 |
Railroad Retirement Board | 44.00 | 0.00 |
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) | 43.20 | 0.00 |
Department of Justice (DOJ) | 42.06 | 0.79 |
West Point (Army) | 41.27 | 4.76 |
Program Executive Office, Ships | 41.27 | 0.00 |
Army Corps of Engineers | 40.80 | 0.00 |
Pacific Command | 40.80 | 0.00 |
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | 39.68 | 0.00 |
Atlantic Fleet Forces Command | 37.84 | 0.00 |
Stennis Center for Public Service | 37.60 | 0.00 |
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board | 36.80 | 0.00 |
Special Forces Operations Command | 36.71 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) | 36.51 | 0.00 |
Department of Agriculture (USDA) | 34.40 | 0.00 |
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) | 32.28 | 0.00 |
Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) | 31.75 | 0.00 |
Minerals Management Service | 30.40 | 0.00 |
Air Force | 27.34 | 0.00 |
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts | 24.00 | 0.00 |
Holocaust Memorial Museum | 23.62 | 0.00 |
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) | 23.02 | 0.00 |
Radio and TV Marti | 21.60 | 18.40 |
National Park Foundation | 21.60 | 5.60 |
National Agricultural Statistics Service | 21.26 | 0.00 |
Institute of Peace | 20.80 | 0.00 |
TRICARE Management | 20.47 | 0.00 |
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) | 20.00 | 0.00 |
National Counterintelligence Executive, Office of | 19.32 | 0.00 |
Federal Judicial Center | 19.20 | 0.00 |
Susquehanna River Basin Commission | 19.20 | 0.00 |
Central Command (CENTCOM) | 18.90 | 0.00 |
Millennium Challenge Corporation | 18.25 | 0.79 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | 18.25 | 0.00 |
Navy | 17.60 | 0.00 |
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) | 16.67 | 0.00 |
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) | 15.87 | 0.00 |
Justice Programs Office | 15.87 | 0.00 |
National Telecommunications and Information Administration | 15.20 | 0.00 |
European Command | 15.08 | 0.00 |
Overseas Private Investment Corporation | 15.00 | 1.67 |
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management | 12.00 | 0.00 |
Corporation for National and Community Service | 12.00 | 0.00 |
Peace Corps | 11.90 | 0.00 |
Selective Service System | 11.11 | 0.00 |
Federal Maritime Commission | 11.02 | 0.00 |
National Reconnaissance Office | 10.40 | 10.40 |
Department of Defense (DOD) | 9.52 | 0.00 |
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission | 8.79 | 0.00 |
Voice of America (VOA) | 8.73 | 0.00 |
State Justice Institute | 8.70 | 0.00 |
Chief Financial Officers Council | 8.59 | 0.00 |
Northwest Power Planning Council | 8.00 | 0.00 |
National Nuclear Security Administration | 7.94 | 0.00 |
Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies | 7.83 | 0.00 |
Constitution Center | 7.20 | 0.00 |
Fossil Energy | 7.14 | 0.00 |
Senate | 6.35 | 0.00 |
Taxpayer Advocacy Panel | 6.35 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | 5.60 | 0.00 |
Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology | 4.76 | 0.00 |
Commission on International Religious Freedom | 4.72 | 0.00 |
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | 4.00 | 0.80 |
Agricultural Marketing Service | 3.97 | 0.00 |
Export-Import Bank of the United States | 3.20 | 0.00 |
Foreign Agricultural Service | 3.20 | 0.00 |
Presidio Trust | 3.20 | 0.00 |
Government National Mortgage Association | 3.17 | 0.00 |
Defense Acquisition University | 2.40 | 0.00 |
Department of Defense Inspector General | 2.40 | 0.00 |
International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) | 2.06 | 0.00 |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Economic Research Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation | 1.60 | 0.00 |
National Endowment for the Arts | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 1.60 | 0.00 |
U.S. Trade Representative | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | 1.59 | 0.00 |
Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services | 1.59 | 0.00 |
Northern Command | 1.59 | 0.00 |
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) | 0.80 | 0.00 |
Joint Forces Staff College | 0.80 | 0.00 |
National Indian Gaming Commission | 0.80 | 0.00 |
Agricultural Research Service | 0.79 | 0.00 |
Interagency Council on Homelessness | 0.79 | 0.00 |
Architect of the Capitol | 0.78 | 0.00 |
State Department | 0.78 | 0.00 |
AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Arctic Research Commission | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Broadcasting Board of Governors | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Bureau of Prisons | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Food Safety and Inspection Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Food and Nutrition Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Open World Leadership Center | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Pentagon Force Protection Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
U.S. Mission to the United Nations | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Vietnam Educational Foundation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
- HELP Commission
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
- AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
- Arctic Research Commission
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
- Bureau of Prisons
- Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
- Food and Nutrition Service
- Food Safety and Inspection Service
- Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
- Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
- Open World Leadership Center
- Pentagon Force Protection Agency
- Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- U.S. Mission to the United Nations
- Vietnam Educational Foundation
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
- Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)
- Environmental Management (Energy Department)
- Inter-American Foundation
- Economic Adjustment Office
- White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
- Southern Command
- Strategic Command
- Washington Headquarters Services
PDF testing
39.4% 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 |
32.15% |
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
26.51% |
file/url/badpath None |
8.20% |
file/url/badquery None |
5.69% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.10% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.03% |
file/html/notitle None |
3.11% |
file/html/badmeta None |
2.12% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.94% |
file/html/longtitle None |
1.83% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
18.45% |
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
16.79% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
16.63% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.97% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
10.93% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.57% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
7.19% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.87% |
file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.66% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.62% |