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US Gov Federal Agencies October 2008

Error free sites

  • HELP Commission
  • Morris K. Udall Foundation

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • 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)
  • U.S. Mission to the United Nations
  • Vietnam Educational Foundation
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Excluded from index

  • Central Command (CENTCOM)
  • Citizens' Health Care Working Group
  • Department of Commerce (DOC)
  • Environmental Management (Energy Department)
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
  • Mississippi River Commission
  • Economic Adjustment Office
  • Pentagon Force Protection Agency
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • Southern Command
  • Strategic Command
  • Technology Administration
  • Washington Headquarters Services

Index facts

Sites tested: 15 Oct 2008
Total URLs tested: 285,872
Total tests run: 93,429,830
Total number of PDF's: 20,055
URLs failing functional tests: 6.84
Pages failing code standards: 84.25
Pages missing a title: 2.43
Pages failing accessibility level A: 35.30
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 35.30
Poorest code quality: Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/) - 142,870 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.

43.7% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 27.51%
url/fetch/notfound 26.65%
file/url/badquery 7.65%
file/url/badpath 6.96%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.65%
url/fetch/accessdenied 4.11%
url/fetch/exception 3.64%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 3.18%
file/html/notitle 2.61%
file/html/longtitle 2.06%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 19.58%
file/html/unknownentity 19.24%
file/html/unknowntag 18.71%
file/html/tagnotallowed 11.71%
file/html/badattr 9.69%
file/html/badvalue 7.94%
file/html/closingunopened 6.33%
file/html/missingclose 4.26%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.62%
url/fetch/moved 0.59%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford