September 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Sep 2008
- Total URLs tested:
51,310
- Total tests run:
16,740,568
- Total number of PDF's:
2,493
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.09%
- Pages failing code standards:
58.69%
- Pages missing a title:
0.84%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
14.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
88.48%
- Poorest code quality:
Civil Aviation Authority (http://www.caa.co.uk/) - 21,093 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 | 99.20 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 92.25 |
| Postal Services Commission | 100.00 | 89.68 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 76.80 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 75.20 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 68.80 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 61.72 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 52.76 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 47.66 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 30.71 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 15.20 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 9.45 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 6.25 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 5.56 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Business Link | 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 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 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 | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulator | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 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 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Conservative Party | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Ofsted | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Water Industry Commission for Scotland | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 99.20 | 57.60 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.20 | 5.60 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.12 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 98.40 | 89.60 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 96.85 | 1.57 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 93.60 | 11.20 |
| Department for International Development | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.91 | 5.51 |
| 10 Downing Street | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Civil Aviation Authority | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 87.40 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 87.20 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Labour Party | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 80.00 | 0.80 |
| FSA | 70.63 | 31.75 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 10.85 | 1.55 |
| Scottish National Party | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.68 | 0.84 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OPPPA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ofwat | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Pension Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Business Link
- Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- Ofwat
- OPPPA
- The Pension Service
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
- Ofqual
PDF testing
17.8% 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/offtop None |
26.05% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
18.98% |
| file/url/badquery None |
13.69% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
12.38% |
| file/url/badpath None |
4.66% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
4.52% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.07% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.69% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.91% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.81% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
21.33% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.32% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
15.11% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
12.12% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.65% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
7.60% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.69% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.09% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.41% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.22% |