December 2008/US Gov State and Territorial



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    23 Dec 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,011

  • Total tests run:

    22,124,817

  • Total number of PDF's:

    817

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    6.32%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    80.56%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.63%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    23.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    98.89%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 44,253 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Idaho State (http://www.state.id.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 State100.0014.96
Nebraska State100.002.34
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
Oregon State100.000.00
Rhode Island State100.000.00
Washington State100.000.00
Pennsylvania State99.220.00
Arkansas State99.210.00
Virginia State99.210.00
California State99.200.00
Kentucky State98.410.00
Maine State98.410.00
Montana State98.410.00
Massachusetts State98.400.00
Vermont State98.400.00
West Virginia State98.400.00
Ohio State97.670.00
South Carolina State​97.640.00
Arizona State96.830.00
Connecticut State96.800.00
Wisconsin State96.000.00
Michigan State95.280.00
Mississippi State95.240.00
New Hampshire State95.203.20
Texas State93.6526.19
Georgia State89.600.00
Maryland State87.200.00
New York State85.710.00
New Mexico State85.600.00
Utah State85.040.00
Wyoming State85.000.00
Florida State78.570.00
South Dakota State56.800.00
Alaska State55.200.00
Louisiana State48.280.86
Tennessee State31.207.20
New Jersey State31.200.00
Indiana State28.570.00
Kansas State28.570.00
Puerto Rico26.560.00
Alabama State23.200.80
Colorado State16.670.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Oklahoma State4.000.00
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

49.8% 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
41.79%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
21.55%
file/url/badpath
None
11.89%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
5.58%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.43%
file/html/notitle
None
2.90%
file/url/offtop
None
2.45%
file/html/longtitle
None
1.29%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
1.21%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.20%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
30.07%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
27.61%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
9.78%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.63%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.65%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
5.00%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
3.76%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.73%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
1.28%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.76%