June 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Jun 2008
- Total URLs tested:
51,271
- Total tests run:
16,728,543
- Total number of PDF's:
2,518
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.69%
- Pages failing code standards:
59.04%
- Pages missing a title:
0.74%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
12.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.69%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 88,264 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Office of Science and Innovation (http://www.dti.gov.uk/science/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 93.65 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 74.80 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 70.54 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 68.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 67.19 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 66.14 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 33.33 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 27.34 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 20.47 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 10.94 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.65 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 3.94 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.59 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 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 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 99.21 | 59.52 |
| Business Link | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| GovTalk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.08 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 96.83 | 0.79 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 94.40 | 8.80 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 5.51 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 83.20 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 80.80 | 0.80 |
| NHS Direct | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 68.00 | 31.20 |
| Department for Transport | 36.43 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 33.60 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 17.83 | 1.55 |
| Scottish National Party | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.71 | 0.85 |
| The Insolvency Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
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
PDF testing
19.3% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
21.31% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
19.89% |
| file/url/offtop None |
16.68% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
8.16% |
| file/url/badpath None |
4.92% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.65% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
4.09% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.36% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
3.26% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
3.11% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
35.55% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
35.51% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.00% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.57% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.26% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.22% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.49% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.90% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.92% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.80% |