Commercial benefits are just the tip of the iceberg

UK Local Government May 2009

Broxbourne
Cotswold
Eden
Forest Heath
Herefordshire
Hillingdon
Hyndburn
Merton
Mid Sussex
Northamptonshire
North Down
Sefton
Shepway
Slough
Solihull
Southampton
Stafford
Sunderland
Taunton Deane
Thurrock
Vale of Glamorgan
Wakefield
Walsall
Worcester

Brighton and Hove
Fermanagh
Huntingdonshire
Selby

Clackmannanshire
Down
Essex
Hampshire
Medway
Rochdale
South Lanarkshire

Sites tested:	21 May 2009
Total URLs tested:	243,120
Total tests run:	79,089,426
Total number of PDF's:	2,901
URLs failing functional tests:	2.53
Pages failing code standards:	56.23
Pages missing a title:	0.42
Pages failing accessibility level A:	5.17
Pages failing acessibility level AA:	5.17
Poorest code quality:	Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 56,472 failures
Fastest overall average response time:	Newry and Mourne (http://www.newryandmourne.gov.uk/)

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.

31.3% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

	Total
url/fetch/notfound	37.90%
url/fetch/badcookie	26.36%
url/fetch/noaddr	11.14%
url/fetch/timeout	9.88%
url/fetch/unknownstatus	5.89%
url/fetch/accessdenied	3.29%
url/fetch/exception	1.44%
url/fetch/badscheme	1.08%
url/fetch/connref	0.99%
url/fetch/redirectloop	0.87%

	Total
file/html/badentity	25.42%
file/html/unknownentity	25.36%
file/html/tagnotallowed	14.87%
file/html/badvalue	10.01%
file/html/closingunopened	5.82%
file/html/badattr	5.15%
file/html/missingclose	3.15%
file/html/unknowntag	2.76%
file/url/badquery	1.98%
file/html/unnecessaryclose	1.74%