Sitemorse is the independent monitor of quality assurance

UK Local Government January 2009

Angus
Bassetlaw
Belfast
Blaby
Brentwood
Camden
City of London
West Dorset
Elmbridge
Gedling
Gwynedd
Hambleton
Herefordshire
Hillingdon
Larne
Moyle
Newcastle-under-Lyme
New Forest
Newtownabbey
North Devon
North Down
Runnymede
Sefton
Shepway
Slough
South Ayrshire
Southampton
South Bedfordshire
Stafford
St Helens
Stratford-on-Avon
Tonbridge and Malling
Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wyre

Brighton and Hove
Castlereagh
East Ayrshire
Fermanagh
Selby

Carmarthenshire
Chester-le-Street
Clackmannanshire
Derwentside
Rochdale
Sedgemoor
South Lanarkshire
Wear Valley

Sites tested:	26 Jan 2009
Total URLs tested:	253,245
Total tests run:	82,420,819
Total number of PDF's:	4,469
URLs failing functional tests:	2.63
Pages failing code standards:	53.24
Pages missing a title:	0.50
Pages failing accessibility level A:	4.51
Pages failing acessibility level AA:	4.51
Poorest code quality:	Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 43,251 failures
Fastest overall average response time:	Newry and Mourne (http://www.newryandmourne.gov.uk/)

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.

24.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

	Total
url/fetch/badcookie	39.19%
url/fetch/notfound	27.90%
url/fetch/noaddr	11.49%
url/fetch/exception	7.16%
url/fetch/unknownstatus	6.52%
url/fetch/timeout	2.64%
url/fetch/accessdenied	1.42%
url/fetch/badscheme	0.79%
url/fetch/redirectloop	0.70%
file/html/noframes	0.67%

	Total
file/html/badentity	25.63%
file/html/unknownentity	25.52%
file/html/tagnotallowed	14.28%
file/html/badvalue	9.34%
file/html/badattr	5.74%
file/html/closingunopened	5.72%
file/html/unknowntag	3.20%
file/html/missingclose	2.95%
file/url/badquery	2.18%
file/html/unnecessaryclose	1.85%