March 2009/US Gov State and Territorial



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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 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
Texas State100.0018.40
Nebraska State100.0011.20
Missouri State100.000.80
Washington State100.000.80
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
North Dakota State99.2015.20
Arkansas State99.200.00
California State99.200.00
Massachusetts State99.200.00
Pennsylvania State99.200.00
Rhode Island State99.200.00
Virginia State99.200.00
West Virginia State99.200.00
South Carolina State​98.400.00
Vermont State98.400.00
Ohio State97.670.00
Delaware State97.600.00
Kentucky State97.600.00
New Hampshire State96.802.40
Arizona State96.800.00
Montana State96.000.00
Maine State95.200.00
Florida State94.400.00
Michigan State94.400.00
Wisconsin State92.800.00
Georgia State90.400.00
Mississippi State90.400.00
Maryland State87.200.00
New York State85.600.00
Connecticut State82.400.00
Utah State82.400.00
Wyoming State80.000.00
Virgin Islands75.200.00
South Dakota State63.200.00
Alaska State56.800.00
Louisiana State50.430.85
Kansas State50.400.00
New Jersey State24.000.00
Indiana State21.600.80
Tennessee State16.003.20
Puerto Rico15.200.00
New Mexico State9.380.00
Nevada State6.670.00
Alabama State3.200.80
Hawaii State1.600.00
District of Columbia​ (D.C.)0.800.00
Oklahoma State0.800.00
American Samoa Gover​nment0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • American Samoa Government
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Colorado State
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Illinois State
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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.

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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%
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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%