May 2008/US Gov Federal Agencies



Expand / contract icon

INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    28 May 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    253,840

  • Total tests run:

    82,979,988

  • Total number of PDF's:

    18,538

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.94%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    83.94%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.75%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    35.36%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.34%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 131,195 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services (http://www.fns.usda.gov/fncs/)




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
Agency for Healthcar​e Research and Quali​ty (AHRQ)100.005.51
Geological Survey (U​SGS)100.002.40
Tax Court100.001.35
Commission on Securi​ty and Cooperation i​n Europe (Helsinki C​ommission)100.000.79
Customs and Border P​rotection100.000.79
Bureau of Alcohol an​d Tobacco Tax and Tr​ade (Treasury)100.000.00
Bureau of Public Deb​t100.000.00
Chief Human Capital ​Officers Council100.000.00
Commission of Fine A​rts100.000.00
Computer Emergency R​eadiness Team (US CE​RT)100.000.00
Coordinating Council​ on Juvenile Justice​ and Delinquency Pre​vention100.000.00
Defense Nuclear Faci​lities Safety Board100.000.00
Defense Security Ser​vice (DSS)100.000.00
Department of Educat​ion (ED)100.000.00
Election Assistance ​Commission100.000.00
Farm Credit Administ​ration100.000.00
Federal Aviation Adm​inistration (FAA)100.000.00
Federal Consulting G​roup100.000.00
Federal Executive Bo​ards100.000.00
Federal Law Enforcem​ent Training Center100.000.00
Federal Motor Carrie​r Safety Administrat​ion100.000.00
Federal Railroad Adm​inistration100.000.00
Federal Retirement T​hrift Investment Boa​rd100.000.00
General Services Adm​inistration (GSA)100.000.00
Government Accountab​ility Office (GAO)100.000.00
HELP Commission100.000.00
Health and Human Ser​vices Department (HH​S)100.000.00
Internal Revenue Ser​vice (IRS)100.000.00
Judicial Panel on Mu​ltidistrict Litigati​on100.000.00
National Labor Relat​ions Board100.000.00
Nuclear Waste Techni​cal Review Board100.000.00
Office of Compliance​100.000.00
Office of Science an​d Technology Policy100.000.00
Postal Rate Commissi​on100.000.00
Regulatory Informati​on Service Center100.000.00
Research and Innovat​ive Technology Admin​istration100.000.00
Risk Management Agen​cy100.000.00
Secret Service100.000.00
Superfund Basic Rese​arch Program100.000.00
Transportation Comma​nd100.000.00
U.S. Citizenship and​ Immigration Service​s100.000.00
U.S. Mint100.000.00
Office of Textiles a​nd Apparel 99.221.56
Morris K. Udall Foun​dation99.2129.92
Court of Federal Cla​ims99.214.76
Bureau of Transporta​tion Statistics99.210.00
Federal Deposit Insu​rance Corporation (F​DIC)99.210.00
Federal Highway Admi​nistration99.210.00
National Cemetery Ad​ministration (Vetera​ns Affairs Departmen​t)99.210.00
National Mediation B​oard99.210.00
Congressional Budget​ Office (CBO)99.200.00
Department of Labor ​(DOL)99.200.00
Department of Transp​ortation (DOT)99.200.00
National Geospatial-​Intelligence Agency99.200.00
Pipeline and Hazardo​us Materials Safety ​Administration99.200.00
U.S. Postal Service ​(USPS)99.200.00
Marine Mammal Commis​sion98.570.00
Defense Commissary A​gency98.440.78
Appalachian Regional​ Commission98.440.00
Federal Emergency Ma​nagement Agency (FEM​A)98.430.00
Federal Reserve Syst​em98.430.00
Centers for Medicare​ and Medicaid Servic​es98.410.00
Energy Efficiency an​d Renewable Energy98.410.00
Social Security Admi​nistration (SSA)98.410.00
U.S. Trade and Devel​opment Agency98.410.00
Central Intelligence​ Agency (CIA)98.400.00
Commodity Futures Tr​ading Commission98.400.00
Court of Appeals for​ Veterans Claims98.400.00
Defense Contract Man​agement Agency98.400.00
Department of the Tr​easury98.400.00
Federal Transit Admi​nistration98.400.00
Office of Personnel ​Management98.400.00
National Oceanic and​ Atmospheric Adminis​tration (NOAA)97.8356.52
Department of Vetera​ns Affairs (VA)97.640.00
National Ocean Servi​ce97.640.00
Office of National D​rug Control Policy (​ONDCP)97.640.00
Bureau of the Census​97.620.00
Chief Information Of​ficers Council97.600.00
Government Printing ​Office (GPO)97.600.00
Joint Forces Command​97.600.00
National Council on ​Disability97.600.00
National Institutes ​of Health (NIH)97.600.00
Japan-United States ​Friendship Commissio​n97.140.00
Nuclear Regulatory C​ommission96.880.00
Federal Election Com​mission96.850.00
Arthritis and Muscul​oskeletal Interagenc​y Coordinating Commi​ttee96.830.00
Coalition Provisiona​l Authority (in Iraq​)96.830.00
National Capital Pla​nning Commission96.830.00
Chemical Safety and ​Hazard Investigation​ Board96.800.00
Department of the In​terior (DOI)96.800.00
Housing and Urban De​velopment Department​ (HUD)96.800.00
National Institute o​f Standards and Tech​nology (NIST)96.800.00
Office of Government​ Ethics96.800.00
Rural Development96.800.00
Merit Systems Protec​tion Board96.430.00
Advisory Council on ​Historic Preservatio​n96.090.00
National Security Ag​ency (NSA)96.060.79
Financial Management​ Service (Treasury D​epartment)96.030.79
Office of Scientific​ and Technical Infor​mation96.030.00
Pension Benefit Guar​anty Corporation96.000.80
U.S. Immigration and​ Customs Enforcement​96.000.00
Federal Mediation an​d Conciliation Servi​ce95.310.00
Bureau of Industry a​nd Security95.240.00
Saint Lawrence Seawa​y Development Corpor​ation95.240.00
Bureau of Labor Stat​istics95.200.00
Natural Resources Co​nservation Service95.200.00
Patent and Trademark​ Office95.200.00
Armed Forces Retirem​ent Home94.810.00
Federal Housing Ente​rprise Oversight94.530.00
Technology Administr​ation94.530.00
Federal Accounting S​tandards Advisory Bo​ard94.490.00
Botanic Garden94.440.79
Defense Logistics Ag​ency (DLA)94.400.00
Library of Congress93.750.00
Social Security Advi​sory Board93.750.00
Agency for Internati​onal Development93.600.00
Comptroller of the C​urrency Office93.600.00
Federal Communicatio​ns Commission (FCC)93.600.00
Federal Housing Fina​nce Board93.600.00
Legal Services Corpo​ration93.600.00
National Guard93.020.00
Administration for C​hildren and Families​ (ACF)92.860.00
Occupational Safety ​&​amp; Health Administ​ration (OSHA)92.860.00
Mine Safety and Heal​th Administration92.800.00
National Credit Unio​n Administration92.250.00
Department of Homela​nd Security (DHS)92.130.00
Employment and Train​ing Administration92.060.00
Federal Labor Relati​ons Authority92.000.00
Tennessee Valley Aut​hority92.000.00
U.S. International T​rade Commission92.000.00
Bureau of Reclamatio​n91.340.79
Architectural and Tr​ansportation Barrier​s Compliance Board (​Access Board)91.2037.60
U.S. Sentencing Comm​ission90.485.56
Environmental Protec​tion Agency (EPA)90.400.80
Equal Employment Opp​ortunity Commission ​(EEOC)90.400.00
International Trade ​Administration (ITA)​90.400.00
Federal Citizen Info​rmation Center (FCIC​)89.760.00
Supreme Court of the​ United States89.760.00
Economic Development​ Administration89.600.00
Indian Health Servic​e89.600.00
Joint Forces Staff C​ollege89.600.00
House Office of the ​Clerk89.060.00
Substance Abuse and ​Mental Health Servic​es Administration88.980.00
Institute of Museum ​and Library Services​88.800.00
Centers for Disease ​Control and Preventi​on (CDC)88.190.79
Veterans Benefits Ad​ministration88.190.00
Federal Financial In​stitutions Examinati​on Council88.100.79
White House88.100.00
Federal Interagency ​Council on Statistic​al Policy87.300.00
National Park Servic​e86.610.00
Citizens' Health Care Wor​king Group86.400.00
Court Services and O​ffender Supervision ​Agency for the Distr​ict of Columbia85.601.60
Food and Drug Admini​stration (FDA)85.600.00
National Highway Tra​ffic Safety Administ​ration85.600.00
Bureau of Engraving ​and Printing85.040.00
Federal Laboratory C​onsortium for Techno​logy Transfer84.920.00
Commission on Civil ​Rights84.800.00
John F. Kennedy Cent​er for the Performin​g Arts84.380.00
Defense Technical In​formation Center84.130.00
Coast Guard84.000.00
Economics and Statis​tics Administration83.640.91
Archives (National A​rchives and Records ​Administration)83.330.79
Endangered Species C​ommittee83.330.00
House of Representat​ives83.330.00
Court of Appeals for​ the Armed Forces83.200.00
Office of Special Co​unsel83.200.00
Minority Business De​velopment Agency82.680.00
Small Business Admin​istration (SBA)82.540.00
National Transportat​ion Safety Board80.800.00
Interagency Alternat​ive Dispute Resoluti​on Working Group80.311.57
Administration on Ag​ing (AoA)78.400.00
Migratory Bird Conse​rvation Commission77.873.28
Maritime Administrat​ion77.780.00
Forest Service77.170.00
Railroad Retirement ​Board76.980.00
National Aeronautics​ and Space Administr​ation (NASA)76.800.00
Surface Transportati​on Board75.200.80
National Gallery of ​Art75.200.00
Agency for Toxic Sub​stances and Disease ​Registry75.000.00
Copyright Office (Li​brary of Congress)73.600.00
Fish and Wildlife Se​rvice73.600.00
Federal Financing Ba​nk73.170.00
Farm Service Agency73.020.00
Court of Internation​al Trade72.800.00
Committee for Purcha​se from People Who A​re Blind or Severely​ Disabled71.430.00
Department of Commer​ce (DOC)70.400.00
Military Postal Serv​ice Agency69.841.59
Consumer Product Saf​ety Commission (CPSC​)69.840.00
American Battle Monu​ments Commission69.600.00
Energy Department (D​OE)68.800.00
African Development ​Foundation68.000.00
Court of Appeals for​ the Federal Circuit​64.860.00
Federal Library and ​Information Center C​ommittee64.800.00
Transportation Secur​ity Administration63.2017.60
National Marine Fish​eries62.400.80
Bureau of Alcohol, T​obacco, Firearms, an​d Explosives (Justic​e)62.400.00
Federal Trade Commis​sion (FTC)61.600.00
National Weather Ser​vice60.320.00
Denali Commission58.730.00
Surface Mining, Recl​amation and Enforcem​ent57.940.00
Corporation for Nati​onal and Community S​ervice57.600.00
National Endowment f​or the Humanities57.140.79
Mississippi River Co​mmission55.200.80
National Science Fou​ndation55.200.00
Program Executive Of​fice, Ships55.200.00
Science Office (Ener​gy Department)55.200.00
Occupational Safety ​and Health Review Co​mmission52.800.00
Defense Advanced Res​earch Projects Agenc​y (DARPA)52.382.38
Department of Justic​e (DOJ)51.593.17
Justice Programs Off​ice51.590.00
Smithsonian Institut​ion51.200.00
President's Council on Int​egrity and Efficienc​y50.400.00
James Madison Memori​al Fellowship Founda​tion50.000.00
National Technical I​nformation Service50.000.00
Securities and Excha​nge Commission (SEC)​49.610.00
Defense Contract Aud​it Agency (DCAA)49.250.00
Army48.801.60
Millennium Challenge​ Corporation46.882.34
Health Resources and​ Services Administra​tion46.400.00
Office of Thrift Sup​ervision42.970.00
National Commission ​on Libraries and Inf​ormation Science42.400.00
National Defense Uni​versity40.000.00
Defense Information ​Systems Agency (DISA​)39.060.00
Army Corps of Engine​ers38.890.00
Energy Information A​dministration36.800.00
Special Forces Opera​tions Command36.710.00
Fulbright Foreign Sc​holarship Board36.510.00
Stennis Center for P​ublic Service36.000.00
Atlantic Fleet Force​s Command35.140.00
Institute of Peace34.920.00
National Interagency​ Fire Center34.400.00
Northwest Power Plan​ning Council33.860.00
Bureau of Economic A​nalysis (BEA)33.070.00
Director of National​ Intelligence32.810.00
Department of Agricu​lture (USDA)29.920.00
Navy29.600.00
Minerals Management ​Service28.000.00
Radio and TV Marti26.5324.49
Chief Financial Offi​cers Council24.000.00
Defense Security Coo​peration Agency (DSC​A)23.200.00
National Agricultura​l Statistics Service​23.020.00
Central Command (CEN​TCOM)21.600.00
European Command21.600.00
Voice of America (VO​A)21.430.00
Administrative Offic​e of the U.S. Courts​20.800.00
Community Oriented P​olicing Services (CO​PS)20.800.00
National Telecommuni​cations and Informat​ion Administration20.800.00
Defense Threat Reduc​tion Agency (DTRA)20.000.00
National Park Founda​tion19.539.38
National Counterinte​lligence Executive, ​Office of19.320.00
Radio Free Europe/​Radio Liberty (RFE/​RL)17.460.00
Overseas Private Inv​estment Corporation15.831.67
Defense Intelligence​ Agency (DIA)15.750.00
Civilian Radioactive​ Waste Management13.600.00
Federal Judicial Cen​ter13.280.00
Bureau of Land Manag​ement (BLM)12.000.80
Federal Bureau of In​vestigation (FBI)12.000.00
Constitution Center11.110.00
Federal Maritime Com​mission11.110.00
National Reconnaissa​nce Office10.2410.24
Government National ​Mortgage Association​10.240.00
West Point (Army)9.450.00
Medicare Payment Adv​isory Commission8.990.00
Joint Congressional ​Committee on Inaugur​al Ceremonies8.850.00
Foreign Agricultural​ Service8.800.00
Taxpayer Advocacy Pa​nel8.730.00
National Nuclear Sec​urity Administration​8.660.00
State Justice Instit​ute8.160.00
Pacific Command8.000.00
Selective Service Sy​stem8.000.00
Holocaust Memorial M​useum6.350.00
Fossil Energy5.600.00
Uniformed Services U​niversity of the Hea​lth Sciences5.560.79
Senate4.800.00
Nuclear Energy, Scie​nce and Technology4.760.00
Peace Corps4.000.00
Export-Import Bank o​f the United States3.200.00
Presidio Trust3.200.00
Commission on Intern​ational Religious Fr​eedom3.170.00
Northern Command3.150.00
International Broadc​asting Bureau (IBB)2.040.00
Department of Defens​e (DOD)1.600.00
Department of Defens​e Inspector General1.600.00
Federal Energy Regul​atory Commission1.600.00
Harry S. Truman Scho​larship Foundation1.600.00
National Endowment f​or the Arts1.600.00
TRICARE Management1.590.79
Agricultural Marketi​ng Service1.590.00
Food, Nutrition and ​Consumer Services1.590.00
Oak Ridge National L​aboratory1.590.00
Economic Research Se​rvice1.570.00
U.S. Trade Represent​ative1.570.00
Agricultural Researc​h Service1.560.00
Animal and Plant Hea​lth Inspection Servi​ce0.800.00
Interagency Council ​on Homelessness0.800.00
Susquehanna River Ba​sin Commission0.800.00
Vietnam Educational ​Foundation0.800.00
Open World Leadershi​p Center0.790.00
State Department0.790.00
AMTRAK (National Rai​lroad Passenger Corp​oration)0.000.00
Air Force0.000.00
Architect of the Cap​itol0.000.00
Arctic Research Comm​ission0.000.00
Barry M. Goldwater S​cholarship and Excel​lence in Education F​oundation0.000.00
Broadcasting Board o​f Governors0.000.00
Bureau of Prisons0.000.00
Cooperative State Re​search, Education an​d Extension Service0.000.00
Defense Acquisition ​University0.000.00
Defense Finance and ​Accounting Service (​DFAS)0.000.00
Federal Interagency ​Committee for the Ma​nagement of Noxious ​and Exotic Weeds0.000.00
Food Safety and Insp​ection Service0.000.00
Food and Nutrition S​ervice0.000.00
Grain Inspection, Pa​ckers and Stockyards​ Administration0.000.00
Missile Defense Agen​cy (MDA)0.000.00
National Indian Gami​ng Commission0.000.00
Pentagon Force Prote​ction Agency0.000.00
Radio Free Asia (RFA​)0.000.00
U.S. Mission to the ​United Nations0.000.00
Woodrow Wilson Inter​national Center for ​Scholars0.000.00
Expand / contract icon

Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Election Assistance Commission
  • HELP Commission
Expand / contract icon

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
  • Air Force
  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • Architect of the Capitol
  • Arctic Research Commission
  • Broadcasting Board of Governors
  • Bureau of Prisons
  • Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
  • Defense Acquisition University
  • Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
  • 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
  • Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
  • National Indian Gaming Commission
  • Pentagon Force Protection Agency
  • Radio Free Asia (RFA)
  • U.S. Mission to the United Nations
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Expand / contract icon

Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)
  • Environmental Management (Energy Department)
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Corps
  • Economic Adjustment Office
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • Southern Command
  • Strategic Command
  • Washington Headquarters Services
Expand / contract icon

PDF testing

40.3% 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.

Expand / contract icon

Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/offtop
None
33.88%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
24.11%
file/url/badpath
None
9.18%
file/url/badquery
None
5.77%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
4.01%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
3.67%
file/html/notitle
None
3.47%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.97%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.94%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.89%
Expand / contract icon

Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
19.43%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
19.14%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
15.68%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
11.87%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.44%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
9.44%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.49%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
4.18%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.67%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.55%