November 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
13 Nov 2008
- Total URLs tested:
51,308
- Total tests run:
16,730,038
- Total number of PDF's:
2,113
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.83%
- Pages failing code standards:
60.00%
- Pages missing a title:
0.56%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
13.21%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
84.79%
- Poorest code quality:
Civil Aviation Authority (http://www.caa.co.uk/) - 18,157 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights (http://www.dca.gov.uk/peoples-rights/human-rights/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 92.97 |
| Postal Services Commission | 100.00 | 88.10 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 80.80 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 79.84 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 79.37 |
| Local Government Association | 100.00 | 70.31 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 70.08 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 44.53 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 41.09 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 26.56 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 7.87 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 7.14 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.76 |
| MI5 | 100.00 | 3.91 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Water Industry Commission for Scotland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.21 | 46.83 |
| The Department of Health | 99.21 | 30.95 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 99.21 | 3.17 |
| Ofcom | 99.21 | 1.59 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Ofsted | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.12 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 98.41 | 9.52 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 98.40 | 62.40 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.64 | 0.79 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 3.17 |
| NHS Direct | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 95.35 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulator | 92.97 | 39.84 |
| HM Prison Service | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 4.76 |
| Ofqual | 92.06 | 54.76 |
| Department for International Development | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 92.00 | 0.80 |
| Civil Aviation Authority | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 90.48 | 50.79 |
| 10 Downing Street | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 65.35 | 0.00 |
| FSA | 59.52 | 44.44 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 57.94 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 11.72 | 1.56 |
| Labour Party | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.68 | 0.84 |
| The Insolvency Service | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Ofwat | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OPPPA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Health & Safety Executive
- 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
- Highways Agency
- OPPPA
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
31.7% 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 |
23.39% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
19.88% |
| file/url/badquery None |
14.64% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
8.86% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
6.70% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.35% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
4.10% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.80% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.44% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.28% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.07% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
20.85% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
15.24% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.96% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
10.72% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.90% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.72% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.83% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.75% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.09% |