April 2009/UK Local Government
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
20 Apr 2009
- Total URLs tested:
241,693
- Total tests run:
78,623,337
- Total number of PDF's:
2,812
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.61%
- Pages failing code standards:
54.82%
- Pages missing a title:
0.49%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
5.14%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
76.85%
- Poorest code quality:
Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 56,124 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Newry and Mourne (http://www.newryandmourne.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 |
---|---|---|
Adur | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Barking & Dagenham | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Salford | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Surrey Heath | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Thurrock | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Brentwood | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Broxtowe | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Elmbridge | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Hillingdon | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Hyndburn | 100.00 | 99.20 |
North Down | 100.00 | 99.20 |
South Norfolk | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Liverpool | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Shepway | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Slough | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Stroud | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Taunton Deane | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Merton | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Herefordshire | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Lewes | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Wycombe | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Argyll & Bute | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Richmond upon Thames | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Hounslow | 100.00 | 95.20 |
North Devon | 100.00 | 94.40 |
Barnsley | 100.00 | 93.60 |
Eden | 100.00 | 93.60 |
Calderdale | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Derbyshire Dales | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Gedling | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Tameside | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Warwick | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Gwynedd | 100.00 | 90.40 |
Runnymede | 100.00 | 90.40 |
Waltham Forest | 100.00 | 90.40 |
Rossendale | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Mansfield | 100.00 | 88.80 |
Eastleigh | 100.00 | 88.00 |
New Forest | 100.00 | 87.20 |
Portsmouth | 100.00 | 87.20 |
Kirklees | 100.00 | 85.60 |
Woking | 100.00 | 85.60 |
South Holland | 100.00 | 84.80 |
Spelthorne | 100.00 | 84.80 |
South Derbyshire | 100.00 | 84.00 |
York | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Havering | 100.00 | 83.20 |
Rhondda Cynon Taff | 100.00 | 83.20 |
East Lothian | 100.00 | 82.40 |
South Bucks | 100.00 | 81.60 |
Trafford | 100.00 | 80.80 |
Redbridge | 100.00 | 80.00 |
Mendip | 100.00 | 79.20 |
South Cambridgeshire | 100.00 | 78.40 |
Wellingborough | 100.00 | 78.40 |
Aberdeen | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Ceredigion | 100.00 | 77.60 |
North Yorkshire | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Solihull | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 100.00 | 75.20 |
Tandridge | 100.00 | 75.20 |
Bracknell Forest | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Kensington & Chelsea | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Sunderland | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Worcester | 100.00 | 73.60 |
East Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 72.80 |
Oldham | 100.00 | 72.80 |
Shetland Islands | 100.00 | 72.80 |
Cannock Chase | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Charnwood | 100.00 | 70.40 |
South Ribble | 100.00 | 70.40 |
Fareham | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Southampton | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Pendle | 100.00 | 68.80 |
Braintree | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Castle Point | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Mid Sussex | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Teignbridge | 100.00 | 68.00 |
South Tyneside | 100.00 | 67.20 |
Stirling | 100.00 | 66.40 |
Milton Keynes | 100.00 | 65.60 |
Stafford | 100.00 | 62.40 |
Torfaen | 100.00 | 62.40 |
Bristol | 100.00 | 60.80 |
Torbay | 100.00 | 60.80 |
Cherwell | 100.00 | 60.00 |
Vale of White Horse | 100.00 | 60.00 |
Sedgemoor | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Mid Devon | 100.00 | 58.40 |
Wychavon | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Manchester | 100.00 | 53.60 |
Hinckley & Bosworth | 100.00 | 52.80 |
East Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 48.80 |
Sheffield | 100.00 | 48.80 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 100.00 | 47.20 |
South Ayrshire | 100.00 | 47.20 |
Bromsgrove | 100.00 | 46.40 |
Isles of Scilly | 100.00 | 45.60 |
Tonbridge and Malling | 100.00 | 44.80 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 100.00 | 40.00 |
Lancaster | 100.00 | 39.20 |
Harlow | 100.00 | 36.00 |
States of Jersey | 100.00 | 33.60 |
Nuneaton & Bedworth | 100.00 | 31.20 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 100.00 | 24.80 |
Peterborough | 100.00 | 24.80 |
Aberdeenshire | 100.00 | 24.00 |
Chiltern | 100.00 | 20.80 |
Wakefield | 100.00 | 20.80 |
Chorley | 100.00 | 20.00 |
North East Derbyshire | 100.00 | 18.40 |
Aylesbury Vale | 100.00 | 16.80 |
Wyre | 100.00 | 15.20 |
Basildon | 100.00 | 12.80 |
Isle of Wight | 100.00 | 10.40 |
West Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 10.40 |
West Lothian | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Camden | 100.00 | 8.80 |
West Dunbartonshire | 100.00 | 8.80 |
Dartford | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Forest of Dean | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Hartlepool | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Rushmoor | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Daventry | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Wrexham | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Colchester | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Newtownabbey | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Cardiff | 100.00 | 2.40 |
East Lindsey | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Great Yarmouth | 100.00 | 1.60 |
North West Leicestershire | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Ards | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Cheshire West | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Chichester | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Dover | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Erewash | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Flintshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Gateshead | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Rochford | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Sevenoaks | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Watford | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Allerdale | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Amber Valley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Angus | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Antrim | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Armagh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Ashford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Babergh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Ballymoney | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Banbridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bassetlaw | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bath & North East Somerset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bedford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bexley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Blackpool | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bolsover | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bradford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bromley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Broxbourne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Buckinghamshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bury | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Central Bedfordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Chelmsford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Chesterfield | 100.00 | 0.00 |
City of London | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Conwy | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Cookstown | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Copeland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Cotswold | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Craven | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Denbighshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Derby | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Dudley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Dungannon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Ealing | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Cambridgeshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Devon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Northamptonshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Sussex | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Eastbourne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Edinburgh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Essex | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Fife | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Forest Heath | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Fylde | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Glasgow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Gloucester | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Hambleton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Haringey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harrogate | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harrow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Hastings | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Havant | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Highland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Inverclyde | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Isle of Anglesey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Kent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Kingston upon Thames | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Knowsley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Lambeth | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Leeds | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Leicester | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Leicestershire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Limavady | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Lincoln | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Lisburn | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Melton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Midlothian | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Monmouthshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Neath Port Talbot | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Newark and Sherwood | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Newham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Norfolk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Ayrshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North East Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Kesteven | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Tyneside | 100.00 | 0.00 |
North Warwickshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Nottingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Nottinghamshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Oadby & Wigston | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Pembrokeshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Poole | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Powys | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Preston | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Purbeck | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Reading | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Rushcliffe | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Rutland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Sandwell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Scarborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Sefton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
South Gloucestershire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
South Hams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
South Lakeland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
South Staffordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
St Helens | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Stevenage | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Stockport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Strabane | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Stratford-on-Avon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Suffolk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Suffolk Coastal | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Surrey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Sutton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Swindon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Thanet | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Three Rivers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Torridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Tower Hamlets | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Tunbridge Wells | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Uttlesford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Waverley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Welwyn Hatfield | 100.00 | 0.00 |
West Berkshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
West Lancashire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
West Lindsey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Westminster | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Weymouth & Portland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wirral | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wokingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Worthing | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Derbyshire | 99.20 | 85.60 |
Luton | 99.20 | 63.20 |
Wolverhampton | 99.20 | 63.20 |
Gloucestershire | 99.20 | 57.60 |
Malvern Hills | 99.20 | 57.60 |
Ribble Valley | 99.20 | 56.00 |
South Somerset | 99.20 | 55.20 |
Redditch | 99.20 | 48.00 |
Hampshire | 99.20 | 44.80 |
Carlisle | 99.20 | 13.60 |
Rotherham | 99.20 | 2.40 |
Dorset | 99.20 | 1.60 |
Dundee | 99.20 | 1.60 |
St Albans | 99.20 | 1.60 |
Caerphilly | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Falkirk | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Omagh | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Somerset | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Belfast | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Blaby | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Boston | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Breckland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cambridgeshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Carmarthenshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cheltenham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Crawley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Croydon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Down | 99.20 | 0.00 |
East Hampshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Epsom & Ewell | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Greenwich | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Guildford | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hackney | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hull | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Ipswich | 99.20 | 0.00 |
King's Lynn & West Norfolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Lewisham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Magherafelt | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Maidstone | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Mid Suffolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Moray | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 99.20 | 0.00 |
North Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
North Somerset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Northumberland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Plymouth | 99.20 | 0.00 |
South Kesteven | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Swansea | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Telford & Wrekin | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tendring | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tewkesbury | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Wandsworth | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Wigan | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Burnley | 98.40 | 79.20 |
Canterbury | 98.40 | 52.80 |
Richmondshire | 98.40 | 48.00 |
Northampton | 98.40 | 42.40 |
Norwich | 98.40 | 35.20 |
East Dunbartonshire | 98.40 | 32.00 |
Exeter | 98.40 | 28.80 |
Test Valley | 98.40 | 11.20 |
Barnet | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cheshire East | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cornwall | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newry and Mourne | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Oxfordshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Rother | 98.40 | 0.00 |
South Northamptonshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
South Oxfordshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Tamworth | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Wealden | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Shropshire | 97.60 | 78.40 |
Brent | 97.60 | 64.00 |
Orkney | 97.60 | 44.80 |
Worcestershire | 97.60 | 40.00 |
High Peak | 97.60 | 34.40 |
Southend-on-Sea | 97.60 | 0.80 |
Basingstoke & Deane | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Broadland | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Coleraine | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Coventry | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Cumbria | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Dacorum | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Gosport | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Hart | 97.60 | 0.00 |
London Mayor | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Middlesbrough | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Scottish Borders | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Fenland | 96.80 | 17.60 |
Epping Forest | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Northamptonshire | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Perth & Kinross | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rugby | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Ryedale | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Winchester | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Medway | 96.00 | 0.80 |
Gravesham | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 95.20 | 28.00 |
North Norfolk | 95.20 | 3.20 |
Corby | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Lancashire | 94.40 | 13.60 |
Moyle | 94.40 | 0.80 |
Maldon | 94.40 | 0.00 |
West Somerset | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Hammersmith & Fulham | 93.60 | 20.00 |
Darlington | 93.60 | 12.80 |
Blaenau Gwent | 92.80 | 0.00 |
Doncaster | 92.00 | 0.80 |
Devon | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Islington | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Bolton | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Newport | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Oxford | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Enfield | 90.40 | 46.40 |
Kettering | 90.40 | 6.40 |
Cambridge | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Walsall | 89.60 | 49.60 |
West Sussex | 89.60 | 0.00 |
Horsham | 88.80 | 6.40 |
Wiltshire | 88.80 | 0.00 |
St Edmundsbury | 88.00 | 0.00 |
Ashfield | 86.40 | 0.00 |
Lichfield | 86.40 | 0.00 |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 85.60 | 60.80 |
Warwickshire | 85.60 | 0.00 |
Southwark | 84.80 | 0.00 |
Warrington | 83.20 | 0.00 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 81.60 | 0.00 |
Craigavon | 80.00 | 0.00 |
Wyre Forest | 80.00 | 0.00 |
Halton | 79.20 | 0.00 |
Hertsmere | 79.20 | 0.00 |
Castlereagh | 77.60 | 0.00 |
Larne | 73.60 | 0.00 |
Mole Valley | 72.00 | 0.00 |
Reigate and Banstead | 69.60 | 0.00 |
Ballymena | 64.80 | 0.00 |
North Lanarkshire | 45.60 | 0.00 |
Bridgend | 40.80 | 2.40 |
Arun | 24.80 | 0.00 |
Bournemouth | 16.00 | 0.00 |
Birmingham | 14.40 | 0.80 |
Swale | 12.80 | 0.00 |
West Devon | 6.40 | 0.00 |
Staffordshire | 4.80 | 0.00 |
Derry | 2.40 | 0.00 |
Waveney | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Carrickfergus | 0.80 | 0.00 |
East Ayrshire | 0.80 | 0.00 |
Brighton and Hove | 0.00 | 0.00 |
East Staffordshire | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Fermanagh | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Huntingdonshire | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Selby | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Angus
- Barking & Dagenham
- Blaby
- Broxbourne
- Broxtowe
- Central Bedfordshire
- Chorley
- City of London
- Copeland
- East Dunbartonshire
- Elmbridge
- States of Jersey
- Harlow
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Hyndburn
- Larne
- Lincoln
- Newark and Sherwood
- North Down
- North Yorkshire
- Rotherham
- Runnymede
- Salford
- Shepway
- Southampton
- South Ribble
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Thurrock
- Trafford
- Wakefield
- West Lindsey
- Wokingham
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Brighton and Hove
- East Staffordshire
- Fermanagh
- Huntingdonshire
- Selby
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Clackmannanshire
- Durham
- Rochdale
- South Lanarkshire
PDF testing
29.0% 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.
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
37.73% |
url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
24.48% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
19.30% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
7.14% |
url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
5.15% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.79% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.33% |
url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
1.08% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.76% |
url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.38% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.91% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.86% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.66% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.55% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.66% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.27% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.04% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.86% |
file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
2.03% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.63% |