May 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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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 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 State100.0012.70
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
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Texas State100.000.00
Arkansas State99.210.00
Maine State99.210.00
Montana State99.210.00
Vermont State99.210.00
Oregon State99.200.00
Kentucky State98.440.00
Massachusetts State98.440.00
Washington State98.410.00
Wisconsin State98.410.00
Pennsylvania State98.400.00
New Hampshire State97.640.00
Connecticut State97.600.00
Ohio State97.560.00
Tennessee State96.830.79
Arizona State96.830.00
New Jersey State96.800.00
West Virginia State95.240.00
Michigan State94.440.00
Georgia State92.060.00
Mississippi State92.060.00
Maryland State87.200.00
New Mexico State84.000.00
Florida State81.600.00
New York State74.400.00
Utah State72.000.00
Alaska State56.000.00
South Dakota State55.200.00
Virginia State50.390.00
Wyoming State43.060.00
Hawaii State39.370.00
Kansas State36.000.00
Illinois State28.570.00
Louisiana State23.810.00
Alabama State22.660.78
Indiana State11.900.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Colorado State6.400.00
Puerto Rico6.250.00
Oklahoma State5.470.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
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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.)
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • South Carolina State
  • Virgin Islands
  • Missouri State
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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.

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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%
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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%