US Gov Federal Agencies September 2008

Error free sites

  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • HELP Commission

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • Air Force
  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • Architect of the Capitol
  • Arctic Research Commission
  • Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
  • Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
  • Food and Nutrition Service
  • Food Safety and Inspection 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
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Excluded from index

  • Citizens' Health Care Working Group
  • Environmental Management (Energy Department)
  • Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
  • Economic Adjustment Office
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • Southern Command
  • Strategic Command
  • Technology Administration
  • Washington Headquarters Services

Index facts

Sites tested: 12 Sep 2008
Total URLs tested: 288,135
Total tests run: 94,072,719
Total number of PDF's: 16,494
URLs failing functional tests: 6.47
Pages failing code standards: 84.38
Pages missing a title: 2.32
Pages failing accessibility level A: 35.03
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 35.03
Poorest code quality: Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 139,506 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.

31.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 31.65%
url/fetch/notfound 25.94%
file/url/badpath 6.77%
file/url/badquery 6.72%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.40%
url/fetch/exception 4.38%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 3.00%
file/html/notitle 2.57%
file/html/longtitle 2.11%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.73%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 18.26%
file/html/unknownentity 17.96%
file/html/unknowntag 16.97%
file/html/tagnotallowed 14.06%
file/html/badvalue 10.51%
file/html/badattr 9.39%
file/html/closingunopened 6.63%
file/html/missingclose 4.14%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.55%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.50%

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