July 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    29 Jul 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,484

  • Total tests run:

    22,600,916

  • Total number of PDF's:

    716

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.20%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    82.28%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.93%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    22.19%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.43%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 43,231 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
Texas State100.0015.20
North Dakota State100.0010.85
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
Minnesota State100.000.00
Nebraska State100.000.00
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Virginia State99.220.00
Arkansas State99.210.00
Oregon State99.200.00
Vermont State98.440.00
Montana State98.400.00
Pennsylvania State98.400.00
Washington State98.400.00
Ohio State97.670.00
South Carolina State​97.660.00
Kentucky State97.620.00
West Virginia State97.600.00
Tennessee State96.830.79
Arizona State96.060.00
New Hampshire State96.060.00
Connecticut State95.240.00
Michigan State95.200.00
Wisconsin State94.400.00
Massachusetts State92.860.00
Mississippi State92.800.00
Georgia State89.840.00
Maine State89.840.00
New Jersey State88.100.00
Maryland State87.200.00
New Mexico State86.820.00
New York State86.400.00
Utah State76.800.00
Louisiana State64.291.43
Florida State64.290.00
Alaska State61.600.00
South Dakota State57.940.00
Wyoming State43.060.00
Indiana State39.840.00
Hawaii State39.530.00
Kansas State31.200.00
Puerto Rico19.050.00
Alabama State10.240.79
Colorado State7.200.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State2.400.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
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.

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

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Illinois State
  • Virgin Islands
  • Missouri State
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PDF testing

22.6% 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
39.82%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
17.38%
file/url/badpath
None
17.17%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
5.82%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.50%
file/html/notitle
None
2.57%
file/url/offtop
None
2.14%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.74%
file/url/badfragment
None
1.31%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.17%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
30.16%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
28.23%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.92%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.61%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.20%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.38%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.79%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.61%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.22%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.98%