May 2008/US Gov State and Territorial
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
30 May 2008
- Total URLs tested:
65,984
- Total tests run:
21,447,634
- Total number of PDF's:
109
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.88%
- Pages failing code standards:
85.05%
- Pages missing a title:
4.13%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
24.56%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
99.72%
- Poorest code quality:
Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 40,364 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Dakota State | 100.00 | 12.70 |
| California State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Delaware State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Guam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Idaho State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Iowa State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Minnesota State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Nebraska State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Carolina State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rhode Island State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Texas State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Arkansas State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Maine State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Montana State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Vermont State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Oregon State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Kentucky State | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts State | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Washington State | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Wisconsin State | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Pennsylvania State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| New Hampshire State | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Connecticut State | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ohio State | 97.56 | 0.00 |
| Tennessee State | 96.83 | 0.79 |
| Arizona State | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| New Jersey State | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| West Virginia State | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Michigan State | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Georgia State | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Mississippi State | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Maryland State | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| New Mexico State | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| Florida State | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| New York State | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Utah State | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Alaska State | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| South Dakota State | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Virginia State | 50.39 | 0.00 |
| Wyoming State | 43.06 | 0.00 |
| Hawaii State | 39.37 | 0.00 |
| Kansas State | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Illinois State | 28.57 | 0.00 |
| Louisiana State | 23.81 | 0.00 |
| Alabama State | 22.66 | 0.78 |
| Indiana State | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| Nevada State | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Colorado State | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Puerto Rico | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Oklahoma State | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| American Samoa Government | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| District of Columbia (D.C.) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- American Samoa Government
- District of Columbia (D.C.)
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Northern Mariana Islands
- South Carolina State
- Virgin Islands
- Missouri State
PDF testing
25.7% 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 |
38.00% |
| file/url/badpath None |
19.03% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
18.44% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
5.57% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.59% |
| file/html/notitle None |
4.14% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.21% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.11% |
| file/url/offtop None |
1.02% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.90% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
32.99% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
30.12% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.57% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.98% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.29% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.53% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.40% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.19% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.89% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.48% |