February 2009/US Gov State Governors



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    05 Feb 2009

  • Total URLs tested:

    34,441

  • Total tests run:

    11,335,883

  • Total number of PDF's:

    5,483

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    1.87%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    77.99%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.04%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    37.67%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.52%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Pennsylvania (http://www.governor.state.pa.us/) - 35,718 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Rhode Island (http://www.governor.ri.gov/)




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
Nebraska100.008.00
Hawaii100.004.80
Massachusetts100.000.80
Connecticut100.000.00
Delaware100.000.00
Florida100.000.00
Iowa100.000.00
New Hampshire100.000.00
North Dakota100.000.00
Oregon100.000.00
Virginia100.000.00
Kansas99.2011.20
Texas99.208.00
Maryland99.200.80
Guam99.200.00
Pennsylvania99.200.00
Arkansas97.830.00
Montana97.600.00
Kentucky96.800.00
Missouri96.0060.80
Georgia95.200.00
Vermont95.200.00
Arizona95.000.00
Michigan94.400.00
Wisconsin93.330.00
Rhode Island92.980.00
New York92.800.00
Indiana92.000.00
Mississippi80.800.00
New Mexico80.000.00
Wyoming78.260.00
South Dakota71.200.00
Idaho68.000.00
Oklahoma65.600.00
California42.4020.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)32.000.00
Louisiana20.800.00
Nevada18.400.00
Tennessee5.600.00
Alaska3.200.00
Minnesota3.200.00
New Jersey2.400.00
West Virginia2.400.00
Washington1.601.60
Utah0.850.00
Alabama0.000.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
North Carolina0.000.00
Ohio0.000.00
Puerto Rico0.000.00
South Carolina0.000.00
Virgin Islands0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Delaware
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
  • Alabama
  • Ohio
  • Puerto Rico
  • North Carolina
  • Virgin Islands
  • South Carolina
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Colorado
  • Illinois
  • Maine
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PDF testing

36.1% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
63.98%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
12.11%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
10.87%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
4.04%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
3.11%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.33%
url/fetch/badport
Server port in URL must be numerical
1.09%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.93%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
0.62%
url/fetch/noeoh
No end-of-headers found in HTTP response
0.47%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
20.14%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
20.02%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
13.03%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
12.34%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
11.86%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.49%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
4.83%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
2.49%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.34%
file/url/badquery
Illegal character in URL query section
0.73%