June 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    27 Jun 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    70,008

  • Total tests run:

    22,779,926

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,051

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.17%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    84.14%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.12%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    22.18%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.69%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 43,409 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
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
Massachusetts State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Arkansas State99.220.00
Virginia State99.220.00
North Dakota State99.2113.39
West Virginia State99.210.00
Kentucky State99.200.00
Oregon State99.200.00
Washington State98.430.00
Montana State98.400.00
Pennsylvania State98.400.00
Vermont State98.400.00
Ohio State97.670.00
New Hampshire State96.850.00
Tennessee State96.830.79
New Jersey State96.830.00
Texas State96.830.00
Wisconsin State96.830.00
Connecticut State96.800.00
Arizona State96.000.00
Michigan State93.800.00
Georgia State92.130.00
Mississippi State91.200.00
Maryland State88.000.00
New Mexico State86.820.00
New York State86.400.00
Maine State84.920.00
Louisiana State78.650.00
Florida State75.200.00
Utah State72.800.00
Alaska State58.730.00
Wyoming State43.060.00
South Dakota State33.860.00
Kansas State25.600.00
Indiana State21.600.00
Alabama State16.800.80
Hawaii State10.160.00
Colorado State8.000.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State3.200.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.790.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Northern Mariana Isl​ands0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Northern Mariana Islands
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Puerto Rico
  • Illinois State
  • South Carolina State
  • Virgin Islands
  • Missouri State
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PDF testing

31.3% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
36.77%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
17.57%
file/url/badpath
None
17.29%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
5.90%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.43%
file/url/offtop
None
3.75%
file/html/notitle
None
2.81%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.07%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.87%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.24%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
31.12%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
28.93%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.64%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.26%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.03%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.54%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.61%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.37%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.18%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.65%