September 2006/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
15 Sep 2006
- Total URLs tested:
40,512
- Total tests run:
13,185,926
- Total number of PDF's:
751
- URLs failing functional tests:
6.79%
- Pages failing code standards:
59.77%
- Pages missing a title:
0.87%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
11.25%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.57%
- Poorest code quality:
DTI - Innovation (http://www.innovation.gov.uk/) - 9,755 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Local e-Government Programme (http://www.localegov.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 94.49 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 88.52 |
| Local e-Government Programme | 100.00 | 84.92 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 82.68 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 74.42 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 73.64 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 70.54 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 34.11 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 7.75 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 6.67 |
| Planning Portal | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Commission for Racial Equality | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Data Protection | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government Communication Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of the Information Commissioner | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Office of the Deputy Prime Minister | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.62 | 2.38 |
| Food Standards Agency | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 93.02 | 1.55 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 92.00 | 64.80 |
| HM Prison Service | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 86.61 | 0.79 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 85.27 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.25 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 76.74 | 0.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 66.40 | 44.00 |
| National Statistics | 14.17 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Government News Network
- Health & Safety Executive
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Department of Trade & Industry
- Invest to Save Budget
- Office of Science and Innovation
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
20.0% 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.
| file/url/offtop None |
33.17% |
| file/url/badquery None |
26.65% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
12.90% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
5.10% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
4.52% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
3.71% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.65% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
2.43% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.41% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.39% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
27.57% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
22.48% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
11.33% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
9.89% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.47% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
6.12% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
3.87% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
3.78% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
2.43% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.83% |