August 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Aug 2008
- Total URLs tested:
52,625
- Total tests run:
17,159,805
- Total number of PDF's:
2,180
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.70%
- Pages failing code standards:
58.00%
- Pages missing a title:
0.83%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
11.92%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.38%
- Poorest code quality:
Food Standards Agency (http://www.food.gov.uk/) - 119,108 failures
- Fastest average response time:
DTI - Innovation (http://www.innovation.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 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 97.66 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 93.70 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 80.47 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 76.80 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 69.84 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 43.65 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 12.80 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 10.16 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 3.12 |
| 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 Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 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 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 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 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.21 | 55.91 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 99.20 | 62.40 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.12 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 98.41 | 84.92 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 98.40 | 3.20 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 97.66 | 42.97 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| Ministry of Defence | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 96.83 | 61.90 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.80 | 5.60 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 84.00 | 0.80 |
| Planning Portal | 83.20 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 77.78 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 59.20 | 28.80 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 49.22 | 0.78 |
| National Statistics | 16.28 | 1.55 |
| Scottish National Party | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.69 | 0.85 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
18.7% 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.
| file/url/badquery None |
23.29% |
| file/url/offtop None |
22.07% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
19.54% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.71% |
| file/url/badpath None |
4.61% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
4.36% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.25% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.80% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.76% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.06% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
36.20% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
36.15% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.47% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
4.88% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.59% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.47% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.96% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.81% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.93% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.87% |