November 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    27 Nov 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,535

  • Total tests run:

    22,609,561

  • Total number of PDF's:

    411

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.34%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    79.91%

  • Pages missing a title:

    4.17%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    22.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.16%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 42,960 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Federated States of Micronesia (http://www.fsmgov.org/)




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 State100.0014.29
Missouri State100.000.80
Delaware State100.000.00
Federated States of ​Micronesia100.000.00
Guam100.000.00
Idaho State100.000.00
Iowa State100.000.00
Minnesota State100.000.00
North Carolina State​100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Washington State100.000.00
Arkansas State99.210.00
Oregon State99.210.00
Virginia State99.210.00
California State99.200.00
Pennsylvania State99.200.00
South Carolina State​99.120.00
Massachusetts State98.430.00
Nebraska State98.410.79
Connecticut State98.410.00
Ohio State97.730.00
Vermont State97.640.00
Kentucky State97.600.00
Maine State96.850.00
West Virginia State96.850.00
Arizona State96.030.00
Wisconsin State95.240.00
Michigan State95.200.00
Texas State94.4019.20
Florida State92.800.00
Georgia State92.800.00
Montana State90.480.00
Mississippi State89.680.00
Utah State89.600.00
Maryland State86.510.00
New Mexico State85.940.00
Wyoming State85.000.00
New Hampshire State83.330.00
Alaska State71.200.00
New York State69.840.00
New Jersey State66.140.00
South Dakota State64.800.00
Louisiana State48.280.86
Kansas State41.600.00
Tennessee State33.606.40
Alabama State32.800.80
Indiana State26.980.00
Puerto Rico22.660.00
Colorado State17.600.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State3.120.00
Hawaii State1.560.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.000.00
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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.)
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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

48.9% 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
42.55%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
19.90%
file/url/badpath
None
10.92%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
7.59%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.22%
file/html/notitle
None
3.03%
file/url/offtop
None
2.38%
file/url/badfragment
None
1.53%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.10%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.06%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
29.65%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
27.30%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.46%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.73%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.97%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.05%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.82%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.41%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.20%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.74%