July 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Jul 2008
- Total URLs tested:
51,308
- Total tests run:
16,724,162
- Total number of PDF's:
1,887
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.41%
- Pages failing code standards:
58.93%
- Pages missing a title:
0.78%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
12.25%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.76%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 90,792 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Department for Culture Media and Sport (http://www.culture.gov.uk/)
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 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 96.90 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 96.80 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 78.57 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 73.81 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 59.06 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 40.80 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 33.59 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 29.92 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 16.67 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 8.80 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.69 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| 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 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 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 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 99.22 | 81.25 |
| Conservative Party | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 99.20 | 74.40 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Cabinet Office | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.11 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 98.40 | 60.80 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 94.44 | 15.87 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 93.65 | 5.56 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 84.00 | 0.80 |
| Planning Portal | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 68.50 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 63.20 | 40.00 |
| Department for Transport | 44.96 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 33.60 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 10.08 | 1.55 |
| Scottish National Party | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.69 | 0.85 |
| The Insolvency Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Highways Agency
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
20.8% 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.
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
21.62% |
| file/url/badquery None |
20.88% |
| file/url/offtop None |
16.08% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
12.17% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.65% |
| file/url/badpath None |
3.78% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.76% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.92% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.39% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.12% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
34.54% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
34.49% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.75% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
5.49% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.52% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.05% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.52% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.14% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.85% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.83% |