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US Gov State Governors May 2008

Failing A & AA on every page

  • American Samoa Government
  • Ohio
  • Puerto Rico
  • Virgin Islands
  • South Carolina

Excluded from index

  • Missouri

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 May 2008
Total URLs tested: 41,355
Total tests run: 13,483,639
Total number of PDF's: 1,664
URLs failing functional tests: 5.15
Pages failing code standards: 79.74
Pages missing a title: 1.10
Pages failing accessibility level A: 37.48
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 37.48
Poorest code quality: Connecticut (http://www.ct.gov/governor/) - 17,393 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Delaware (http://governor.delaware.gov/)

PDF testing

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.

23.1% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 37.34%
url/fetch/noaddr 16.37%
url/fetch/notfound 16.04%
file/url/offtop 6.74%
file/html/badmeta 4.31%
file/url/badpath 3.68%
file/html/longtitle 3.27%
file/html/notitle 1.99%
url/fetch/exception 1.96%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 1.72%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/unknownentity 19.41%
file/html/badentity 19.28%
file/html/badattr 15.89%
file/html/tagnotallowed 11.90%
file/html/badvalue 11.59%
file/html/unknowntag 10.82%
file/html/closingunopened 5.07%
file/html/missingclose 2.20%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.92%
file/html/longtitle 0.43%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford