April 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    29 Apr 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    67,610

  • Total tests run:

    22,000,550

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,050

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.20%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    84.58%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.54%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    25.62%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.71%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 38,858 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)




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
North Dakota State100.0012.60
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
Texas State100.000.00
Vermont State99.220.00
Maine State99.210.00
New Hampshire State99.210.00
Oregon State99.210.00
Montana State99.200.00
Rhode Island State99.200.00
Virginia State98.450.00
Washington State98.410.00
Wisconsin State98.410.00
Tennessee State97.620.79
Connecticut State97.600.00
Pennsylvania State97.600.00
Ohio State97.560.00
Arizona State96.800.00
North Carolina State​96.150.00
Michigan State96.060.00
Kentucky State96.000.00
Mississippi State92.860.00
Georgia State90.480.00
Massachusetts State90.400.00
Arkansas State88.980.00
Utah State88.890.00
Maryland State88.100.00
New Mexico State86.820.00
New York State80.950.00
New Jersey State78.740.00
Alaska State76.980.00
Florida State67.200.00
South Dakota State55.200.00
Wyoming State44.590.00
Hawaii State34.920.00
Illinois State34.920.00
Kansas State29.370.00
Louisiana State18.520.00
Alabama State17.320.79
Colorado State15.200.00
Indiana State10.320.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Puerto Rico6.200.00
Oklahoma State0.780.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Northern Mariana Isl​ands0.000.00
West Virginia State0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • West Virginia State
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • South Carolina State
  • Virgin Islands
  • Missouri State
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PDF testing

30.1% 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
33.74%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
16.22%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
13.92%
file/url/badpath
None
13.63%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.13%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
3.46%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.31%
file/html/notitle
None
2.15%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.85%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
1.61%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
34.44%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
32.64%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.41%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
6.70%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
5.83%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.30%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.17%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.65%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.88%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.43%