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US Gov State and Territorial August 2008

Failing A & AA on every page

  • American Samoa Government
  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Wyoming State

Excluded from index

  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Illinois State
  • Virgin Islands

Index facts

Sites tested: 29 Aug 2008
Total URLs tested: 68,641
Total tests run: 22,330,399
Total number of PDF's: 849
URLs failing functional tests: 5.38
Pages failing code standards: 82.83
Pages missing a title: 2.15
Pages failing accessibility level A: 21.47
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 21.47
Poorest code quality: Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 40,316 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)

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.

48.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 39.09%
url/fetch/notfound 16.40%
file/url/badpath 15.61%
url/fetch/exception 7.18%
url/fetch/noaddr 6.12%
file/url/offtop 3.23%
file/html/notitle 1.93%
file/html/longtitle 1.89%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 1.46%
url/fetch/timeout 1.24%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 30.80%
file/html/unknownentity 29.04%
file/html/tagnotallowed 9.95%
file/html/badattr 8.91%
file/html/badvalue 7.34%
file/html/closingunopened 4.75%
file/html/missingclose 3.76%
file/html/unknowntag 3.12%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 1.10%
url/fetch/moved 0.60%