March 2009/US Gov State and Territorial
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Mar 2009
- Total URLs tested:
73,692
- Total tests run:
23,959,780
- Total number of PDF's:
380
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
83.04%
- Pages missing a title:
3.27%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
23.62%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.92%
- Poorest code quality:
Pennsylvania State (http://www.state.pa.us/) - 41,950 failures
- Fastest average response time:
New York State (http://www.state.ny.us/)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas State | 100.00 | 18.40 |
| Nebraska State | 100.00 | 11.20 |
| Missouri State | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Washington State | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Guam | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Idaho State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Iowa State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Minnesota State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Carolina State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Oregon State | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Dakota State | 99.20 | 15.20 |
| Arkansas State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| California State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Pennsylvania State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Rhode Island State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Virginia State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| West Virginia State | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| South Carolina State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Vermont State | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Ohio State | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Delaware State | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Kentucky State | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| New Hampshire State | 96.80 | 2.40 |
| Arizona State | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Montana State | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Maine State | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Florida State | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Michigan State | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Wisconsin State | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Georgia State | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Mississippi State | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Maryland State | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| New York State | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Connecticut State | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Utah State | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Wyoming State | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Virgin Islands | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| South Dakota State | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Alaska State | 56.80 | 0.00 |
| Louisiana State | 50.43 | 0.85 |
| Kansas State | 50.40 | 0.00 |
| New Jersey State | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Indiana State | 21.60 | 0.80 |
| Tennessee State | 16.00 | 3.20 |
| Puerto Rico | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| New Mexico State | 9.38 | 0.00 |
| Nevada State | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Alabama State | 3.20 | 0.80 |
| Hawaii State | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| District of Columbia (D.C.) | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Oklahoma State | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| American Samoa Government | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- American Samoa Government
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Colorado State
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Illinois State
PDF testing
54.5% 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/notfound File not found |
61.14% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
15.83% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
11.16% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
3.69% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.23% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
1.12% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.95% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.70% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.70% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.56% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
26.92% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
26.84% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
9.51% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.48% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.39% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
6.01% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.50% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.77% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.26% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
1.25% |