October 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    29 Oct 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,180

  • Total tests run:

    22,174,828

  • Total number of PDF's:

    628

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.98%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    82.21%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.89%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    23.44%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.33%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Oklahoma State (http://www.ok.gov/) - 44,695 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    New York State (http://www.state.ny.us/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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 State100.0014.40
Missouri State100.000.79
California State100.000.00
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Massachusetts State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Washington State100.000.00
Arkansas State99.220.00
Virginia State99.220.00
Georgia State99.210.00
Oregon State99.210.00
West Virginia State99.210.00
Texas State99.208.80
Nebraska State98.430.00
Pennsylvania State98.410.00
South Carolina State​98.400.00
Vermont State98.400.00
Ohio State97.730.00
New Hampshire State97.620.79
Montana State97.620.00
Kentucky State97.600.00
Michigan State97.600.00
Arizona State96.830.00
Maine State94.530.00
Wisconsin State93.600.00
Connecticut State92.000.00
Mississippi State88.800.00
New Mexico State87.500.00
Maryland State86.400.00
Wyoming State85.000.00
New York State80.800.00
Florida State75.200.00
Utah State72.800.00
New Jersey State65.082.38
Alaska State59.200.00
Kansas State51.200.00
Louisiana State47.830.87
South Dakota State46.400.00
Indiana State32.540.00
Alabama State28.800.80
Tennessee State20.475.51
Colorado State9.600.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Puerto Rico6.200.00
Hawaii State1.560.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
Oklahoma State0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
  • District of Columbia (D.C.)
  • Oklahoma State
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Illinois State
  • Virgin Islands
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PDF testing

37.7% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
40.97%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
21.12%
file/url/badpath
None
12.35%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
5.00%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
4.56%
file/html/notitle
None
3.24%
file/url/offtop
None
3.16%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.61%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.22%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.02%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
31.74%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
28.99%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.38%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.10%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.72%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.15%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.54%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.00%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.13%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.63%