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UK Central Government September 2008

Error free sites

  • Directgov Jobs and Skills
  • Business Link
  • Water Industry Commission for Scotland

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Ofwat
  • OPPPA
  • The Pension Service

Excluded from index

  • Government Communication Network
  • Ofqual

Index facts

Sites tested: 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 acessibility level AA: 14.01
Poorest code quality: Civil Aviation Authority (http://www.caa.co.uk/) - 21,093 failures
Fastest overall average response time: DTI - Innovation (http://www.innovation.gov.uk/)

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.

17.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 26.05%
url/fetch/notfound 18.98%
file/url/badquery 13.69%
url/fetch/noaddr 12.38%
file/url/badpath 4.66%
file/html/longtitle 4.52%
file/html/badmeta 4.07%
file/html/longmeta 2.69%
file/html/notitle 1.91%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.81%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 21.33%
file/html/unknownentity 21.32%
file/html/tagnotallowed 15.11%
file/html/badvalue 12.12%
file/html/badattr 8.65%
file/html/unknowntag 7.60%
file/html/closingunopened 5.69%
file/html/missingclose 4.09%
file/html/repeatedattr 1.41%
url/fetch/moved 1.22%