October 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Oct 2008
- Total URLs tested:
49,229
- Total tests run:
16,056,209
- Total number of PDF's:
2,184
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.86%
- Pages failing code standards:
60.23%
- Pages missing a title:
1.42%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
14.59%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
87.22%
- Poorest code quality:
Civil Aviation Authority (http://www.caa.co.uk/) - 13,255 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Human Rights (http://www.humanrights.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 | 100.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 96.83 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 93.60 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 77.17 |
| Postal Services Commission | 100.00 | 76.00 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 75.20 |
| Local Government Association | 100.00 | 65.62 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 65.62 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 100.00 | 58.40 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 57.94 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 55.20 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 48.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 17.46 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 14.06 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 14.06 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 12.00 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 6.30 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| 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 |
| Conservative Party | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 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 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 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 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 99.22 | 53.12 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.79 |
| Healthcare Commission | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ofsted | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Water Industry Commission for Scotland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.13 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 98.44 | 2.34 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Ofcom | 98.41 | 1.59 |
| Ofgem | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 98.40 | 7.20 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 93.60 | 8.80 |
| Civil Aviation Authority | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.19 | 2.34 |
| Ofqual | 91.27 | 50.00 |
| 10 Downing Street | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 91.20 | 60.00 |
| Public Record Office | 88.80 | 0.80 |
| Privy Council Office | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 84.38 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 80.33 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 74.02 | 0.00 |
| FSA | 67.20 | 37.60 |
| Department for Transport | 57.94 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 43.20 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 12.80 | 1.60 |
| Labour Party | 7.09 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.68 | 0.84 |
| The Insolvency Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| 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
- Liberal Democrat Party
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
PDF testing
25.5% 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 |
26.70% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
18.42% |
| file/url/badquery None |
15.69% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
6.64% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.30% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.81% |
| file/html/notitle None |
3.51% |
| file/url/badpath None |
3.30% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.76% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.56% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.57% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
20.56% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
16.31% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
15.33% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.14% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.68% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.66% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.89% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.59% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.51% |