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US Gov Federal Agencies June 2008

Error free sites

  • Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
  • HELP Commission

Failing A & AA 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 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
  • Vietnam Educational Foundation
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Excluded from index

  • Environmental Management (Energy Department)
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Economic Adjustment Office
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • Southern Command
  • Strategic Command
  • Washington Headquarters Services

Index facts

Sites tested: 13 Jun 2008
Total URLs tested: 269,365
Total tests run: 88,081,097
Total number of PDF's: 20,672
URLs failing functional tests: 6.81
Pages failing code standards: 83.66
Pages missing a title: 2.73
Pages failing accessibility level A: 35.55
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 35.55
Poorest code quality: Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 132,827 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Food and Nutrition Service (http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/)

PDF testing

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.

36.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 31.64%
url/fetch/notfound 26.06%
file/url/badpath 8.84%
file/url/badquery 5.84%
url/fetch/exception 4.53%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.03%
file/html/notitle 3.48%
file/html/badmeta 2.13%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.91%
file/html/longtitle 1.80%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 18.92%
file/html/unknownentity 18.58%
file/html/unknowntag 16.20%
file/html/tagnotallowed 12.25%
file/html/badvalue 11.13%
file/html/badattr 9.69%
file/html/closingunopened 6.56%
file/html/missingclose 4.27%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.77%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.55%