April 2009/UK Local Government



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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 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
Adur100.00100.00
Barking &​ Dagenham100.00100.00
Salford100.00100.00
Surrey Heath100.00100.00
Thurrock100.00100.00
Brentwood100.0099.20
Broxtowe100.0099.20
Elmbridge100.0099.20
Hillingdon100.0099.20
Hyndburn100.0099.20
North Down100.0099.20
South Norfolk100.0099.20
Liverpool100.0098.40
Shepway100.0098.40
Slough100.0098.40
Stroud100.0098.40
Taunton Deane100.0098.40
Merton100.0097.60
Herefordshire100.0096.80
Lewes100.0096.80
Wycombe100.0096.80
Argyll &​ Bute100.0096.00
Richmond upon Thames​100.0096.00
Hounslow100.0095.20
North Devon100.0094.40
Barnsley100.0093.60
Eden100.0093.60
Calderdale100.0092.80
Derbyshire Dales100.0092.80
Hertfordshire100.0092.00
Gedling100.0091.20
Tameside100.0091.20
Warwick100.0091.20
Gwynedd100.0090.40
Runnymede100.0090.40
Waltham Forest100.0090.40
Rossendale100.0089.60
Mansfield100.0088.80
Eastleigh100.0088.00
New Forest100.0087.20
Portsmouth100.0087.20
Kirklees100.0085.60
Woking100.0085.60
South Holland100.0084.80
Spelthorne100.0084.80
South Derbyshire100.0084.00
York100.0084.00
Havering100.0083.20
Rhondda Cynon Taff100.0083.20
East Lothian100.0082.40
South Bucks100.0081.60
Trafford100.0080.80
Redbridge100.0080.00
Mendip100.0079.20
South Cambridgeshire​100.0078.40
Wellingborough100.0078.40
Aberdeen100.0077.60
Ceredigion100.0077.60
North Yorkshire100.0077.60
Solihull100.0077.60
Stockton-on-Tees100.0075.20
Tandridge100.0075.20
Bracknell Forest100.0073.60
Kensington &​ Chelsea100.0073.60
Sunderland100.0073.60
Worcester100.0073.60
East Renfrewshire100.0072.80
Oldham100.0072.80
Shetland Islands100.0072.80
Cannock Chase100.0071.20
Charnwood100.0070.40
South Ribble100.0070.40
Fareham100.0069.60
Southampton100.0069.60
Pendle100.0068.80
Braintree100.0068.00
Castle Point100.0068.00
Mid Sussex100.0068.00
Teignbridge100.0068.00
South Tyneside100.0067.20
Stirling100.0066.40
Milton Keynes100.0065.60
Stafford100.0062.40
Torfaen100.0062.40
Bristol100.0060.80
Torbay100.0060.80
Cherwell100.0060.00
Vale of White Horse100.0060.00
Sedgemoor100.0059.20
Mid Devon100.0058.40
Wychavon100.0056.00
Manchester100.0053.60
Hinckley &​ Bosworth100.0052.80
East Hertfordshire100.0048.80
Sheffield100.0048.80
Barrow-in-Furness100.0047.20
South Ayrshire100.0047.20
Bromsgrove100.0046.40
Isles of Scilly100.0045.60
Tonbridge and Mallin​g100.0044.80
East Riding of Yorks​hire100.0040.00
Lancaster100.0039.20
Harlow100.0036.00
States of Jersey100.0033.60
Nuneaton &​ Bedworth100.0031.20
Dumfries and Gallowa​y100.0024.80
Peterborough100.0024.80
Aberdeenshire100.0024.00
Chiltern100.0020.80
Wakefield100.0020.80
Chorley100.0020.00
North East Derbyshir​e100.0018.40
Aylesbury Vale100.0016.80
Wyre100.0015.20
Basildon100.0012.80
Isle of Wight100.0010.40
West Oxfordshire100.0010.40
West Lothian100.009.60
Camden100.008.80
West Dunbartonshire100.008.80
Dartford100.007.20
Forest of Dean100.007.20
Hartlepool100.007.20
Rushmoor100.007.20
Daventry100.004.00
Wrexham100.004.00
Colchester100.003.20
Newtownabbey100.003.20
Cardiff100.002.40
East Lindsey100.001.60
Great Yarmouth100.001.60
North West Leicester​shire100.001.60
Ards100.000.80
Cheshire West100.000.80
Chichester100.000.80
Dover100.000.80
Erewash100.000.80
Flintshire100.000.80
Gateshead100.000.80
Redcar and Cleveland​100.000.80
Rochford100.000.80
Sevenoaks100.000.80
Watford100.000.80
Allerdale100.000.00
Amber Valley100.000.00
Angus100.000.00
Antrim100.000.00
Armagh100.000.00
Ashford100.000.00
Babergh100.000.00
Ballymoney100.000.00
Banbridge100.000.00
Bassetlaw100.000.00
Bath &​ North East Somerset​100.000.00
Bedford100.000.00
Bexley100.000.00
Blackburn with Darwe​n100.000.00
Blackpool100.000.00
Bolsover100.000.00
Bradford100.000.00
Bromley100.000.00
Broxbourne100.000.00
Buckinghamshire100.000.00
Bury100.000.00
Central Bedfordshire​100.000.00
Chelmsford100.000.00
Chesterfield100.000.00
City of London100.000.00
Comhairle nan Eilean​ Siar100.000.00
Conwy100.000.00
Cookstown100.000.00
Copeland100.000.00
Cotswold100.000.00
Craven100.000.00
Denbighshire100.000.00
Derby100.000.00
Dudley100.000.00
Dungannon100.000.00
Ealing100.000.00
East Cambridgeshire100.000.00
East Devon100.000.00
East Northamptonshir​e100.000.00
East Sussex100.000.00
Eastbourne100.000.00
Edinburgh100.000.00
Essex100.000.00
Fife100.000.00
Forest Heath100.000.00
Fylde100.000.00
Glasgow100.000.00
Gloucester100.000.00
Hambleton100.000.00
Harborough100.000.00
Haringey100.000.00
Harrogate100.000.00
Harrow100.000.00
Hastings100.000.00
Havant100.000.00
Highland100.000.00
Inverclyde100.000.00
Isle of Anglesey100.000.00
Kent100.000.00
Kingston upon Thames​100.000.00
Knowsley100.000.00
Lambeth100.000.00
Leeds100.000.00
Leicester100.000.00
Leicestershire100.000.00
Limavady100.000.00
Lincoln100.000.00
Lincolnshire100.000.00
Lisburn100.000.00
Melton100.000.00
Midlothian100.000.00
Monmouthshire100.000.00
Neath Port Talbot100.000.00
Newark and Sherwood100.000.00
Newham100.000.00
Norfolk100.000.00
North Ayrshire100.000.00
North East Lincolnsh​ire100.000.00
North Hertfordshire100.000.00
North Kesteven100.000.00
North Lincolnshire100.000.00
North Tyneside100.000.00
North Warwickshire100.000.00
Nottingham100.000.00
Nottinghamshire100.000.00
Oadby &​ Wigston100.000.00
Pembrokeshire100.000.00
Poole100.000.00
Powys100.000.00
Preston100.000.00
Purbeck100.000.00
Reading100.000.00
Renfrewshire100.000.00
Rushcliffe100.000.00
Rutland100.000.00
Sandwell100.000.00
Scarborough100.000.00
Sefton100.000.00
South Gloucestershir​e100.000.00
South Hams100.000.00
South Lakeland100.000.00
South Staffordshire100.000.00
St Helens100.000.00
Stevenage100.000.00
Stockport100.000.00
Strabane100.000.00
Stratford-on-Avon100.000.00
Suffolk100.000.00
Suffolk Coastal100.000.00
Surrey100.000.00
Sutton100.000.00
Swindon100.000.00
Thanet100.000.00
Three Rivers100.000.00
Torridge100.000.00
Tower Hamlets100.000.00
Tunbridge Wells100.000.00
Uttlesford100.000.00
Vale of Glamorgan100.000.00
Waverley100.000.00
Welwyn Hatfield100.000.00
West Berkshire100.000.00
West Lancashire100.000.00
West Lindsey100.000.00
Westminster100.000.00
Weymouth &​ Portland100.000.00
Wirral100.000.00
Wokingham100.000.00
Worthing100.000.00
Derbyshire99.2085.60
Luton99.2063.20
Wolverhampton99.2063.20
Gloucestershire99.2057.60
Malvern Hills99.2057.60
Ribble Valley99.2056.00
South Somerset99.2055.20
Redditch99.2048.00
Hampshire99.2044.80
Carlisle99.2013.60
Rotherham99.202.40
Dorset99.201.60
Dundee99.201.60
St Albans99.201.60
Caerphilly99.200.80
Falkirk99.200.80
Omagh99.200.80
Somerset99.200.80
Belfast99.200.00
Blaby99.200.00
Boston99.200.00
Breckland99.200.00
Cambridgeshire99.200.00
Carmarthenshire99.200.00
Cheltenham99.200.00
Crawley99.200.00
Croydon99.200.00
Down99.200.00
East Hampshire99.200.00
Epsom &​ Ewell99.200.00
Greenwich99.200.00
Guildford99.200.00
Hackney99.200.00
Hull99.200.00
Ipswich99.200.00
King's Lynn &​ West Norfolk99.200.00
Lewisham99.200.00
Magherafelt99.200.00
Maidstone99.200.00
Mid Suffolk99.200.00
Moray99.200.00
Newcastle upon Tyne99.200.00
Newcastle-under-Lyme​99.200.00
North Dorset99.200.00
North Somerset99.200.00
Northumberland99.200.00
Plymouth99.200.00
South Kesteven99.200.00
Stoke-on-Trent99.200.00
Swansea99.200.00
Telford &​ Wrekin99.200.00
Tendring99.200.00
Tewkesbury99.200.00
Wandsworth99.200.00
Wigan99.200.00
Burnley98.4079.20
Canterbury98.4052.80
Richmondshire98.4048.00
Northampton98.4042.40
Norwich98.4035.20
East Dunbartonshire98.4032.00
Exeter98.4028.80
Test Valley98.4011.20
Barnet98.400.00
Cheshire East98.400.00
Cornwall98.400.00
Newry and Mourne98.400.00
Oxfordshire98.400.00
Rother98.400.00
South Northamptonshi​re98.400.00
South Oxfordshire98.400.00
Tamworth98.400.00
Wealden98.400.00
Shropshire97.6078.40
Brent97.6064.00
Orkney97.6044.80
Worcestershire97.6040.00
High Peak97.6034.40
Southend-on-Sea97.600.80
Basingstoke &​ Deane97.600.00
Broadland97.600.00
Coleraine97.600.00
Coventry97.600.00
Cumbria97.600.00
Dacorum97.600.00
Gosport97.600.00
Hart97.600.00
London Mayor97.600.00
Middlesbrough97.600.00
Scottish Borders97.600.00
Fenland96.8017.60
Epping Forest96.800.00
Northamptonshire96.800.00
Perth &​ Kinross96.800.00
Rugby96.800.00
Ryedale96.800.00
Winchester96.800.00
Medway96.000.80
Gravesham96.000.00
Windsor and Maidenhe​ad95.2028.00
North Norfolk95.203.20
Corby95.200.00
Lancashire94.4013.60
Moyle94.400.80
Maldon94.400.00
West Somerset94.400.00
Hammersmith &​ Fulham93.6020.00
Darlington93.6012.80
Blaenau Gwent92.800.00
Doncaster92.000.80
Devon92.000.00
Islington92.000.00
Bolton91.200.00
Newport91.200.00
Oxford91.200.00
Enfield90.4046.40
Kettering90.406.40
Cambridge90.400.00
Walsall89.6049.60
West Sussex89.600.00
Horsham88.806.40
Wiltshire88.800.00
St Edmundsbury88.000.00
Ashfield86.400.00
Lichfield86.400.00
Staffordshire Moorla​nds85.6060.80
Warwickshire85.600.00
Southwark84.800.00
Warrington83.200.00
Merthyr Tydfil81.600.00
Craigavon80.000.00
Wyre Forest80.000.00
Halton79.200.00
Hertsmere79.200.00
Castlereagh77.600.00
Larne73.600.00
Mole Valley72.000.00
Reigate and Banstead​69.600.00
Ballymena64.800.00
North Lanarkshire45.600.00
Bridgend40.802.40
Arun24.800.00
Bournemouth16.000.00
Birmingham14.400.80
Swale12.800.00
West Devon6.400.00
Staffordshire4.800.00
Derry2.400.00
Waveney1.600.00
Carrickfergus0.800.00
East Ayrshire0.800.00
Brighton and Hove0.000.00
East Staffordshire0.000.00
Fermanagh0.000.00
Huntingdonshire0.000.00
Selby0.000.00
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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
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Brighton and Hove
  • East Staffordshire
  • Fermanagh
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Selby
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Clackmannanshire
  • Durham
  • Rochdale
  • South Lanarkshire
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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.

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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%
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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%