October 2008/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
89.93%
- Poorest code quality:
Kent Police (http://www.kent.police.uk/) - 9,396 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 96.12 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 92.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 65.59 |
| Staffordshire Police | 100.00 | 33.33 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 6.98 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Dorset Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.21 | 35.71 |
| Fife Constabulary | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 98.51 | 17.91 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 96.80 | 4.80 |
| Strathclyde Police | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 89.76 | 0.79 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 87.20 | 0.80 |
| City of London Police | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 85.27 | 68.22 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 83.72 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 81.10 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 80.47 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 78.40 | 14.40 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 75.97 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 68.80 | 2.40 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 55.56 | 84.92 |
| British Transport Police | 39.20 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 12.70 | 6.35 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 3.94 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Non-Emergency Crime
PDF testing
19.7% 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 |
44.28% |
| file/url/badpath None |
11.87% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
10.80% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
9.11% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.45% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
5.12% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.25% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.72% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.23% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.17% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
24.58% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
18.56% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
17.57% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
12.54% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
6.76% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
6.33% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
6.06% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.17% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.04% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.81% |