September 2008/US Gov State and Territorial
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
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 State | 100.00 | 14.17 |
| Missouri State | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| California State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Delaware State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Guam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Idaho State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Iowa State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Minnesota State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Carolina State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rhode Island State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Virginia State | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Arkansas State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| South Carolina State | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Oregon State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Texas State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Washington State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Vermont State | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Montana State | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Pennsylvania State | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Nebraska State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Ohio State | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Kentucky State | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Michigan State | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| New Hampshire State | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| Tennessee State | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| West Virginia State | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Wisconsin State | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Arizona State | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Maine State | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Connecticut State | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Georgia State | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Mississippi State | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Florida State | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Utah State | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| New Mexico State | 88.10 | 0.00 |
| Maryland State | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| New York State | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| New Jersey State | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Alaska State | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| Louisiana State | 44.44 | 0.79 |
| Kansas State | 42.86 | 0.00 |
| South Dakota State | 34.92 | 0.00 |
| Indiana State | 24.60 | 0.00 |
| Alabama State | 18.40 | 0.80 |
| Puerto Rico | 17.97 | 0.00 |
| Colorado State | 10.16 | 0.00 |
| Nevada State | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Oklahoma State | 4.76 | 0.00 |
| Hawaii State | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| American Samoa Government | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| District of Columbia (D.C.) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wyoming State | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Illinois State
- Virgin Islands
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.
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% |
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% |