September 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    30 Sep 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,895

  • Total tests run:

    22,402,133

  • Total number of PDF's:

    433

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.34%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    84.38%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.13%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    21.79%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.64%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 41,700 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    New York State (http://www.state.ny.us/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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
North Dakota State100.0014.17
Missouri State100.000.79
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Virginia State99.220.00
Arkansas State99.210.00
South Carolina State​99.210.00
Oregon State99.200.00
Texas State99.200.00
Washington State99.200.00
Vermont State98.430.00
Montana State98.410.00
Pennsylvania State98.410.00
Massachusetts State98.400.00
Nebraska State98.400.00
Ohio State97.670.00
Kentucky State97.600.00
Michigan State96.830.00
New Hampshire State96.800.80
Tennessee State96.800.80
West Virginia State96.800.00
Wisconsin State96.800.00
Arizona State96.030.00
Maine State95.200.00
Connecticut State93.650.00
Georgia State91.200.00
Mississippi State91.200.00
Florida State89.680.00
Utah State88.800.00
New Mexico State88.100.00
Maryland State88.000.00
New York State85.830.00
New Jersey State74.400.00
Alaska State68.250.00
Louisiana State44.440.79
Kansas State42.860.00
South Dakota State34.920.00
Indiana State24.600.00
Alabama State18.400.80
Puerto Rico17.970.00
Colorado State10.160.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State4.760.00
Hawaii State2.340.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Wyoming State0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

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

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Illinois State
  • Virgin Islands
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PDF testing

52.2% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
43.33%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
16.81%
file/url/badpath
None
13.29%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
5.16%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
4.97%
file/url/offtop
None
2.96%
file/html/notitle
None
2.71%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.66%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.51%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.50%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
29.93%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
28.05%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.18%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.62%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.25%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.85%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
4.01%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.51%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.15%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.72%