December 2008/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Dec 2008
- Total URLs tested:
49,725
- Total tests run:
16,219,307
- Total number of PDF's:
2,257
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.82%
- Pages failing code standards:
60.02%
- Pages missing a title:
0.69%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
12.83%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
85.64%
- Poorest code quality:
Highways Agency (http://www.highways.gov.uk/) - 21,299 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Human Rights (http://www.humanrights.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 92.91 |
| Postal Services Commission | 100.00 | 86.40 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 70.63 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 66.93 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 66.93 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 50.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 46.88 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 33.59 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 26.19 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 21.26 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 13.49 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 12.00 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 9.30 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 6.25 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 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 Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 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 |
| Ofwat | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Water Industry Commission for Scotland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.22 | 72.09 |
| Local Government Association | 99.22 | 58.59 |
| Ofcom | 99.22 | 1.56 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.22 | 0.78 |
| Conservative Party | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ofsted | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Child Support Agency | 99.21 | 56.69 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 99.20 | 76.80 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.11 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Ofqual | 97.62 | 68.25 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 97.62 | 10.32 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 3.97 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulator | 96.90 | 37.98 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 96.83 | 58.73 |
| Public Record Office | 96.83 | 0.79 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 96.00 | 20.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.97 | 5.47 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| 10 Downing Street | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Civil Aviation Authority | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 75.40 | 0.79 |
| FSA | 70.40 | 25.60 |
| Planning Portal | 65.87 | 0.79 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 25.40 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 8.59 | 1.56 |
| Labour Party | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.68 | 0.84 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 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 |
| The Insolvency Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Child Support Agency
- 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
- The Insolvency Service
- OPPPA
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
- Met Office
PDF testing
28.3% 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 |
29.19% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
20.31% |
| file/url/badquery None |
13.48% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
6.75% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.95% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.64% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.85% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.53% |
| file/url/badpath None |
2.18% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.02% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.30% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
21.14% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
15.53% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
14.47% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
12.66% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.97% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.64% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.39% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.57% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.86% |