July 2008/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    25 Jul 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    27,782

  • Total tests run:

    9,050,080

  • Total number of PDF's:

    805

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.76%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    62.78%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.64%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    19.38%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    91.92%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/) - 9,425 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.gov.uk/)




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
Gwent Police100.0096.12
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.0088.41
Derbyshire Constabul​ary100.0084.80
Leicestershire Const​abulary100.0074.02
Staffordshire Police​100.0052.34
South Yorkshire Poli​ce100.005.51
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce100.000.79
Dorset Police100.000.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Greater Manchester P​olice100.000.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry100.000.00
Humberside Police100.000.00
Lancashire Police100.000.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police100.000.00
Northern Constabular​y100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e100.000.00
Wiltshire Police100.000.00
Northumbria Police99.220.00
Cleveland Police99.210.79
City of London Polic​e99.210.00
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency98.5319.12
South Wales Police97.620.00
Fife Constabulary97.600.00
West Midlands Police​96.800.00
Grampian Police96.030.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary96.000.00
Durham Constabulary95.280.00
Norfolk Constabulary​95.240.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force94.570.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary92.130.00
Kent Police92.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice91.342.36
Cheshire Police89.6866.67
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry89.604.80
Bedfordshire Police88.000.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​87.500.00
Strathclyde Police87.500.00
Surrey Police87.200.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service86.400.00
Association of Polic​e Authorities86.050.00
Essex Police84.0010.40
Sussex Police79.370.00
Cumbria Police77.950.79
Lincolnshire Police75.970.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce73.230.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary65.890.00
British Transport Po​lice56.000.00
Merseyside Police18.400.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce5.600.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary4.800.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice4.692.34
Thames Valley Police​1.590.00
North Wales Police0.780.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary0.000.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Non-Emergency Crime
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PDF testing

22.1% 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/offtop
None
41.41%
file/url/badpath
None
24.48%
file/html/longmeta
None
8.41%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
7.06%
file/html/badmeta
None
5.08%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
4.23%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.37%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.70%
file/url/badquery
None
0.90%
file/html/notitle
None
0.81%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
23.96%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
21.97%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
15.65%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
14.79%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
6.80%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
5.92%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
5.57%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.14%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.73%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.70%