January 2009/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Jan 2009
- Total URLs tested:
26,471
- Total tests run:
8,617,453
- Total number of PDF's:
553
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.52%
- Pages failing code standards:
67.03%
- Pages missing a title:
0.71%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
18.32%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.86%
- Poorest code quality:
Kent Police (http://www.kent.police.uk/) - 9,833 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Serious Organised Crime Agency (http://www.soca.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 87.20 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 82.40 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 79.20 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 65.59 |
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 56.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 52.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 100.00 | 30.40 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Dorset Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| City of London Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 98.53 | 20.59 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 90.40 | 0.80 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 86.40 | 0.80 |
| Surrey Police | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 84.80 | 0.80 |
| Cumbria Police | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 64.80 | 0.80 |
| British Transport Police | 37.60 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 11.20 | 5.60 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Non-Emergency Crime
PDF testing
25.1% 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.
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
38.44% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
33.33% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
10.68% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
7.43% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
3.44% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.97% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.39% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.11% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.46% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.37% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
26.19% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
19.44% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
18.05% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.52% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
6.04% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.94% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.72% |
| file/url/offtop Relative URL attempted to move beyond top level |
3.48% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.09% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.18% |