June 2009/UK Local Government
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
24 Jun 2009
- Total URLs tested:
246,400
- Total tests run:
80,152,020
- Total number of PDF's:
2,770
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.09%
- Pages failing code standards:
55.88%
- Pages missing a title:
0.41%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
5.02%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
76.47%
- Poorest code quality:
Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 58,269 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 |
Brentwood | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Elmbridge | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Hyndburn | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Liverpool | 100.00 | 100.00 |
North Devon | 100.00 | 100.00 |
North Down | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Runnymede | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Salford | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Slough | 100.00 | 100.00 |
South Norfolk | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Surrey Heath | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Thurrock | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Hounslow | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Mid Sussex | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Broxtowe | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Herefordshire | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Taunton Deane | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Argyll & Bute | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Rossendale | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Lewes | 100.00 | 96.80 |
North Tyneside | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Shepway | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Wycombe | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Merton | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Stroud | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 94.40 |
Derbyshire Dales | 100.00 | 93.60 |
Hillingdon | 100.00 | 93.60 |
Gedling | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Gwynedd | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Tameside | 100.00 | 92.80 |
York | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Calderdale | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Mansfield | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Oldham | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Eastleigh | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Richmond upon Thames | 100.00 | 91.20 |
South Holland | 100.00 | 90.40 |
Portsmouth | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Torbay | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Woking | 100.00 | 88.80 |
Rhondda Cynon Taff | 100.00 | 86.40 |
Trafford | 100.00 | 85.60 |
City of London | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Redbridge | 100.00 | 83.20 |
New Forest | 100.00 | 81.60 |
Tandridge | 100.00 | 80.80 |
Warwick | 100.00 | 80.80 |
Solihull | 100.00 | 80.00 |
Barnsley | 100.00 | 79.20 |
Hastings | 100.00 | 79.20 |
Waltham Forest | 100.00 | 79.20 |
Spelthorne | 100.00 | 78.40 |
Sunderland | 100.00 | 78.40 |
South Derbyshire | 100.00 | 77.60 |
East Lothian | 100.00 | 76.80 |
Shropshire | 100.00 | 76.80 |
Stafford | 100.00 | 76.80 |
South Cambridgeshire | 100.00 | 76.00 |
Worcester | 100.00 | 74.40 |
Mendip | 100.00 | 72.80 |
Enfield | 100.00 | 72.00 |
Vale of White Horse | 100.00 | 72.00 |
Stirling | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Bracknell Forest | 100.00 | 70.40 |
Shetland Islands | 100.00 | 70.40 |
Charnwood | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Kensington & Chelsea | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Cannock Chase | 100.00 | 68.80 |
Aberdeen | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Braintree | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Southampton | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Torfaen | 100.00 | 68.00 |
Milton Keynes | 100.00 | 64.00 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 100.00 | 60.80 |
Hampshire | 100.00 | 60.00 |
Hinckley & Bosworth | 100.00 | 60.00 |
Bristol | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Pendle | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Wychavon | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Kirklees | 100.00 | 58.40 |
South Ribble | 100.00 | 58.40 |
Sedgemoor | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Aylesbury Vale | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Isles of Scilly | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Bromsgrove | 100.00 | 53.60 |
Cherwell | 100.00 | 53.60 |
South Bucks | 100.00 | 53.60 |
Ceredigion | 100.00 | 52.00 |
Manchester | 100.00 | 52.00 |
East Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 50.40 |
Fareham | 100.00 | 48.00 |
States of Jersey | 100.00 | 48.00 |
Harlow | 100.00 | 46.40 |
Tonbridge and Malling | 100.00 | 44.80 |
Central Bedfordshire | 100.00 | 44.00 |
South Ayrshire | 100.00 | 44.00 |
Lancaster | 100.00 | 43.20 |
North Yorkshire | 100.00 | 36.80 |
East Dunbartonshire | 100.00 | 32.80 |
Sheffield | 100.00 | 32.00 |
Aberdeenshire | 100.00 | 25.60 |
Peterborough | 100.00 | 24.80 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 100.00 | 24.00 |
Hammersmith & Fulham | 100.00 | 22.40 |
Nuneaton & Bedworth | 100.00 | 21.60 |
Wakefield | 100.00 | 20.80 |
East Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 18.40 |
North East Derbyshire | 100.00 | 18.40 |
Basildon | 100.00 | 16.80 |
Wyre | 100.00 | 16.80 |
Chorley | 100.00 | 14.40 |
Forest of Dean | 100.00 | 9.60 |
West Lothian | 100.00 | 9.60 |
West Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Dartford | 100.00 | 8.00 |
Copeland | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Rushmoor | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Camden | 100.00 | 6.40 |
Chiltern | 100.00 | 6.40 |
Isle of Wight | 100.00 | 6.40 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Hartlepool | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Newtownabbey | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Wrexham | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Daventry | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Cardiff | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Colchester | 100.00 | 2.40 |
Great Yarmouth | 100.00 | 2.40 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 100.00 | 1.60 |
East Lindsey | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Harrogate | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Havering | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Sevenoaks | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Cheshire West | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Dover | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Erewash | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Falkirk | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Flintshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Gateshead | 100.00 | 0.80 |
North Warwickshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
North West Leicestershire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Uttlesford | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 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 |
Ards | 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 |
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 |
Chelmsford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Chesterfield | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Chichester | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Conwy | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Cookstown | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Cotswold | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Craven | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Croydon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Denbighshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Derby | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Down | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Dudley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Dungannon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Durham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Ealing | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Northamptonshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
East Sussex | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Eastbourne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Epsom & Ewell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Fermanagh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Fife | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Forest Heath | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Gloucester | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Guildford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Hambleton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Haringey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harrow | 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 |
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 Somerset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Northumberland | 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 |
Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Rushcliffe | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Rutland | 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 Oxfordshire | 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 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 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 |
Teignbridge | 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 |
Waverley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wellingborough | 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 | 88.80 |
Eden | 99.20 | 86.40 |
South Tyneside | 99.20 | 75.20 |
Luton | 99.20 | 74.40 |
Mid Devon | 99.20 | 67.20 |
Redditch | 99.20 | 64.00 |
South Somerset | 99.20 | 59.20 |
Gloucestershire | 99.20 | 58.40 |
Ribble Valley | 99.20 | 56.80 |
Malvern Hills | 99.20 | 55.20 |
Canterbury | 99.20 | 48.80 |
Test Valley | 99.20 | 29.60 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 99.20 | 28.80 |
Horsham | 99.20 | 24.00 |
Northampton | 99.20 | 17.60 |
Brighton and Hove | 99.20 | 13.60 |
Carlisle | 99.20 | 5.60 |
Rotherham | 99.20 | 2.40 |
Moyle | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Omagh | 99.20 | 0.80 |
St Albans | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Tamworth | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Belfast | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Bexley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Blaby | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Boston | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cambridgeshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cheltenham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Crawley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
East Cambridgeshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
East Devon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Exeter | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Greenwich | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hackney | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hull | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Leicestershire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Lewisham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
London Mayor | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Magherafelt | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Maidstone | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Mid Suffolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
North Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
North Lincolnshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Oxfordshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Perth & Kinross | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Swansea | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Telford & Wrekin | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tewkesbury | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Wigan | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Burnley | 98.40 | 82.40 |
Essex | 98.40 | 70.40 |
Richmondshire | 98.40 | 46.40 |
Carrickfergus | 98.40 | 42.40 |
Norwich | 98.40 | 24.00 |
Somerset | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Breckland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cheshire East | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cornwall | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Coventry | 98.40 | 0.00 |
East Hampshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Glasgow | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Hart | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Ipswich | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Moray | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newry and Mourne | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Plymouth | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Reading | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Wandsworth | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Barnet | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Broadland | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Carmarthenshire | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Coleraine | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Cumbria | 97.60 | 0.00 |
High Peak | 97.60 | 0.00 |
King's Lynn & West Norfolk | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Middlesbrough | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Rother | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Scottish Borders | 97.60 | 0.00 |
South Northamptonshire | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Southwark | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Swale | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Wolverhampton | 96.80 | 57.60 |
Worcestershire | 96.80 | 40.00 |
Fenland | 96.80 | 19.20 |
Blackpool | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rochford | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rugby | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Ryedale | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Sandwell | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Orkney | 96.00 | 40.80 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 96.00 | 27.20 |
Edinburgh | 96.00 | 0.80 |
Corby | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Dacorum | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Dundee | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Epping Forest | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Gravesham | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Darlington | 95.20 | 63.20 |
Caerphilly | 95.20 | 0.80 |
Medway | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Southend-on-Sea | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Blaenau Gwent | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Maldon | 94.40 | 0.00 |
West Somerset | 94.40 | 0.00 |
West Dunbartonshire | 93.60 | 22.40 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Lancashire | 92.80 | 9.60 |
Gosport | 92.80 | 0.80 |
Walsall | 92.00 | 47.20 |
Doncaster | 92.00 | 0.00 |
South Kesteven | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Winchester | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Bolton | 91.67 | 0.00 |
Islington | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Tendring | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Cambridge | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Newport | 90.40 | 0.00 |
North Norfolk | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Wiltshire | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Kettering | 89.60 | 1.60 |
West Sussex | 88.80 | 40.00 |
Basingstoke & Deane | 88.80 | 0.00 |
St Edmundsbury | 88.00 | 0.00 |
Northamptonshire | 87.20 | 0.00 |
Oxford | 85.60 | 0.00 |
Hertsmere | 84.80 | 0.00 |
Lichfield | 84.00 | 0.00 |
Warwickshire | 83.20 | 0.00 |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 82.40 | 59.20 |
Reigate and Banstead | 82.40 | 0.00 |
Castlereagh | 81.60 | 0.00 |
Halton | 80.80 | 0.00 |
Brent | 80.00 | 49.60 |
Craigavon | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Wyre Forest | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Larne | 77.60 | 0.00 |
Warrington | 74.40 | 0.00 |
Mole Valley | 73.60 | 0.00 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 71.20 | 0.80 |
Castle Point | 64.00 | 0.00 |
North Lanarkshire | 56.00 | 0.00 |
Ballymena | 49.60 | 0.00 |
Bridgend | 46.40 | 0.80 |
Arun | 27.20 | 0.00 |
Wealden | 27.20 | 0.00 |
Birmingham | 15.20 | 0.80 |
Bournemouth | 12.80 | 0.00 |
West Devon | 10.40 | 0.00 |
Fylde | 8.80 | 3.20 |
Staffordshire | 4.00 | 0.00 |
Devon | 1.60 | 0.00 |
East Staffordshire | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Waveney | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Derry | 0.80 | 0.00 |
East Ayrshire | 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.
- Aberdeen
- Barking & Dagenham
- Broxtowe
- Chorley
- City of London
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Forest Heath
- States of Jersey
- Gwynedd
- Hambleton
- Harlow
- Herefordshire
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Luton
- North Down
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Runnymede
- Slough
- South Ribble
- Stafford
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Tandridge
- Torbay
- Vale of Glamorgan
- West Lindsey
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- East Ayrshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Selby
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Ashfield
- Clackmannanshire
- Rochdale
- South Lanarkshire
PDF testing
30.1% 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/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
30.62% |
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
30.58% |
url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
17.82% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
8.60% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
6.55% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.52% |
url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.84% |
url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.82% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.68% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.65% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.49% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.45% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.05% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
9.77% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.82% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.45% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.26% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.86% |
file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
2.06% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.05% |