May 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 May 2008
- Total URLs tested:
51,480
- Total tests run:
16,778,034
- Total number of PDF's:
1,809
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
58.18%
- Pages missing a title:
0.82%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
11.10%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
86.88%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 109,133 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 | 99.20 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 95.28 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 76.38 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 61.11 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 50.00 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 42.86 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 18.60 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 9.30 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 3.97 |
| 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 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 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 |
| Food Standards Agency | 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 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 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 |
| 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 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 99.21 | 95.28 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.20 | 38.40 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.07 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.64 | 0.79 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.64 | 0.79 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 97.62 | 60.32 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 95.31 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 95.28 | 19.69 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 93.02 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 32.28 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 84.80 | 0.80 |
| Public Record Office | 84.00 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 81.10 | 0.79 |
| Labour Party | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 75.20 | 41.60 |
| NHS Direct | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 43.41 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 17.83 | 1.55 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.64 | 0.82 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.92 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.79 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Met Office
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
- Small Business Service
PDF testing
23.8% 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/badquery None |
23.92% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
18.83% |
| file/url/offtop None |
17.10% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
7.65% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.64% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
3.87% |
| file/url/badpath None |
3.69% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.46% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.05% |
| file/url/badfragment None |
2.37% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
37.51% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
37.46% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
8.83% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.79% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.01% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.84% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.25% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.49% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.41% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.75% |