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Police Forces October 2008

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland

Excluded from index

  • Non-Emergency Crime

Index facts

Sites tested: 27 Oct 2008
Total URLs tested: 28,982
Total tests run: 9,441,068
Total number of PDF's: 843
URLs failing functional tests: 7.79
Pages failing code standards: 65.70
Pages missing a title: 0.62
Pages failing accessibility level A: 20.17
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 20.17
Poorest code quality: Kent Police (http://www.kent.police.uk/) - 9,396 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.gov.uk/)

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.

19.7% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 44.28%
file/url/badpath 11.87%
url/fetch/notfound 10.80%
file/html/longmeta 9.11%
file/html/badmeta 5.45%
url/fetch/badcookie 5.12%
url/fetch/noaddr 4.25%
url/mail/badsmtp 1.72%
url/fetch/exception 1.23%
url/fetch/connref 1.17%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badvalue 24.58%
file/html/badentity 18.56%
file/html/unknownentity 17.57%
file/html/tagnotallowed 12.54%
file/html/closingunopened 6.76%
file/html/missingclose 6.33%
file/html/unknowntag 6.06%
file/html/badattr 4.17%
url/fetch/moved 1.04%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.81%

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