US Gov Federal Agencies August 2008

Error free sites

  • HELP Commission

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • Architect of the Capitol
  • Arctic Research Commission
  • Broadcasting Board of Governors
  • Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
  • Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
  • Food and Nutrition Service
  • Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
  • Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
  • Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
  • National Indian Gaming Commission
  • Radio Free Asia (RFA)
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
  • Vietnam Educational Foundation

Excluded from index

  • Citizens' Health Care Working Group
  • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  • Environmental Management (Energy Department)
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Economic Adjustment Office
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • Southern Command
  • Strategic Command
  • Washington Headquarters Services

Index facts

Sites tested: 15 Aug 2008
Total URLs tested: 286,985
Total tests run: 93,773,095
Total number of PDF's: 19,345
URLs failing functional tests: 6.99
Pages failing code standards: 85.39
Pages missing a title: 2.39
Pages failing accessibility level A: 34.60
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 34.60
Poorest code quality: Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 137,096 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Food and Nutrition Service (http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/)

PDF testing

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.

40.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 31.79%
url/fetch/notfound 24.61%
file/url/badpath 6.49%
file/url/badquery 5.82%
url/fetch/exception 5.57%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 4.57%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.21%
file/html/notitle 2.46%
file/html/badmeta 2.02%
file/html/longtitle 1.96%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 18.29%
file/html/unknownentity 17.90%
file/html/unknowntag 17.77%
file/html/tagnotallowed 13.91%
file/html/badattr 10.05%
file/html/badvalue 8.10%
file/html/closingunopened 7.26%
file/html/missingclose 4.18%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.59%
file/html/missingattr 0.56%

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