July 2009/UK Local Government
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
21 Jul 2009
- Total URLs tested:
243,084
- Total tests run:
79,070,524
- Total number of PDF's:
2,624
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.96%
- Pages failing code standards:
54.78%
- Pages missing a title:
0.34%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
5.08%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
76.07%
- Poorest code quality:
Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 57,164 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Oxfordshire (http://www.oxfordshire.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 |
Brentwood | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Elmbridge | 100.00 | 100.00 |
North Devon | 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 |
Barking & Dagenham | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Hounslow | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Hyndburn | 100.00 | 99.20 |
North Tyneside | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Taunton Deane | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Thurrock | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Broxtowe | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Liverpool | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Mid Sussex | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Herefordshire | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Merton | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Stroud | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Argyll & Bute | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Shepway | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Wycombe | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Lewes | 100.00 | 95.20 |
Oldham | 100.00 | 95.20 |
Richmond upon Thames | 100.00 | 95.20 |
Hillingdon | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Calderdale | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Charnwood | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Eastleigh | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Mansfield | 100.00 | 91.20 |
New Forest | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Rossendale | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Tameside | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Rhondda Cynon Taff | 100.00 | 90.40 |
Torbay | 100.00 | 90.40 |
York | 100.00 | 90.40 |
South Holland | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Warwick | 100.00 | 88.00 |
Gedling | 100.00 | 87.20 |
Woking | 100.00 | 87.20 |
Derbyshire Dales | 100.00 | 85.60 |
North Down | 100.00 | 85.60 |
Solihull | 100.00 | 84.80 |
Portsmouth | 100.00 | 82.40 |
Spelthorne | 100.00 | 82.40 |
Teignbridge | 100.00 | 82.40 |
Gwynedd | 100.00 | 81.60 |
Tandridge | 100.00 | 81.60 |
Trafford | 100.00 | 81.60 |
South Derbyshire | 100.00 | 80.80 |
Redbridge | 100.00 | 80.00 |
South Cambridgeshire | 100.00 | 80.00 |
Waltham Forest | 100.00 | 80.00 |
Shropshire | 100.00 | 78.40 |
East Lothian | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Sunderland | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Aberdeen | 100.00 | 76.80 |
Mendip | 100.00 | 76.00 |
Shetland Islands | 100.00 | 76.00 |
Cannock Chase | 100.00 | 74.40 |
Braintree | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Kensington & Chelsea | 100.00 | 72.80 |
Southampton | 100.00 | 70.40 |
Bracknell Forest | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Dover | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Stirling | 100.00 | 69.60 |
Worcester | 100.00 | 68.80 |
Stafford | 100.00 | 67.20 |
Torfaen | 100.00 | 67.20 |
Cherwell | 100.00 | 64.80 |
Hastings | 100.00 | 64.80 |
Milton Keynes | 100.00 | 64.80 |
South Tyneside | 100.00 | 63.20 |
East Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 62.40 |
Mid Devon | 100.00 | 62.40 |
Vale of White Horse | 100.00 | 61.60 |
Pendle | 100.00 | 60.80 |
Enfield | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Kirklees | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Wychavon | 100.00 | 59.20 |
South Bucks | 100.00 | 57.60 |
Ceredigion | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Isles of Scilly | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Bristol | 100.00 | 55.20 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 100.00 | 52.80 |
Blaby | 100.00 | 52.80 |
Hinckley & Bosworth | 100.00 | 52.00 |
Central Bedfordshire | 100.00 | 51.20 |
South Ribble | 100.00 | 48.80 |
Fareham | 100.00 | 45.60 |
North Lanarkshire | 100.00 | 44.00 |
Sheffield | 100.00 | 44.00 |
North Yorkshire | 100.00 | 43.20 |
Lancaster | 100.00 | 41.60 |
Hampshire | 100.00 | 40.80 |
Aberdeenshire | 100.00 | 31.20 |
Dartford | 100.00 | 29.60 |
Nuneaton & Bedworth | 100.00 | 27.20 |
States of Jersey | 100.00 | 27.20 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 100.00 | 26.40 |
Harlow | 100.00 | 25.60 |
Peterborough | 100.00 | 25.60 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 100.00 | 24.80 |
North East Derbyshire | 100.00 | 24.00 |
Wakefield | 100.00 | 20.80 |
Hammersmith & Fulham | 100.00 | 20.00 |
Chorley | 100.00 | 19.20 |
South Ayrshire | 100.00 | 19.20 |
Wyre | 100.00 | 19.20 |
East Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 17.60 |
Basildon | 100.00 | 16.00 |
Haringey | 100.00 | 15.20 |
Erewash | 100.00 | 11.20 |
Camden | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Forest of Dean | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Hartlepool | 100.00 | 9.60 |
West Lothian | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Rushmoor | 100.00 | 8.80 |
Test Valley | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Chiltern | 100.00 | 5.60 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 100.00 | 5.60 |
West Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 5.60 |
Daventry | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Wrexham | 100.00 | 4.80 |
Great Yarmouth | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Harrogate | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Cardiff | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Colchester | 100.00 | 1.60 |
East Lindsey | 100.00 | 1.60 |
North West Leicestershire | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Sevenoaks | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Tonbridge and Malling | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Ards | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Cheshire West | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Falkirk | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Gateshead | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Isle of Wight | 100.00 | 0.80 |
North Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
North Warwickshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Tower Hamlets | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Uttlesford | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Watford | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Westminster | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Worthing | 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 |
Aylesbury Vale | 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 |
Copeland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Craven | 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 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 |
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 |
Greenwich | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Guildford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Hambleton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Harrow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Havant | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Havering | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Highland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Inverclyde | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Ipswich | 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
Telford & Wrekin | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Thanet | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Three Rivers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Torridge | 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 |
Weymouth & Portland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wirral | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wokingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Barnsley | 99.20 | 96.00 |
Eden | 99.20 | 95.20 |
Derbyshire | 99.20 | 86.40 |
City of London | 99.20 | 77.60 |
South Somerset | 99.20 | 64.80 |
Wolverhampton | 99.20 | 64.80 |
Sedgemoor | 99.20 | 64.00 |
Ribble Valley | 99.20 | 60.80 |
Gloucestershire | 99.20 | 57.60 |
Malvern Hills | 99.20 | 55.20 |
Canterbury | 99.20 | 52.80 |
Redditch | 99.20 | 43.20 |
Northampton | 99.20 | 18.40 |
Brighton and Hove | 99.20 | 13.60 |
Carlisle | 99.20 | 6.40 |
London Mayor | 99.20 | 3.20 |
Rotherham | 99.20 | 2.40 |
Newtownabbey | 99.20 | 1.60 |
Moyle | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Omagh | 99.20 | 0.80 |
St Albans | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Ashford | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Babergh | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Belfast | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Bolton | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cambridgeshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cheltenham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Crawley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Croydon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Cumbria | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Exeter | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Glasgow | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hackney | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hull | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Islington | 99.20 | 0.00 |
King's Lynn & West Norfolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Lewisham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Lincoln | 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 |
Oxfordshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Perth & Kinross | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Plymouth | 99.20 | 0.00 |
South Hams | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Swindon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tamworth | 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 | 80.80 |
Essex | 98.40 | 72.00 |
Carrickfergus | 98.40 | 63.20 |
Norwich | 98.40 | 49.60 |
Richmondshire | 98.40 | 48.00 |
East Dunbartonshire | 98.40 | 32.80 |
Caerphilly | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Edinburgh | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Somerset | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Boston | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Breckland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cheshire East | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cornwall | 98.40 | 0.00 |
East Hampshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Gosport | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 98.40 | 0.00 |
North Dorset | 98.40 | 0.00 |
North Lincolnshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Powys | 98.40 | 0.00 |
South Oxfordshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Swansea | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Manchester | 97.60 | 50.40 |
High Peak | 97.60 | 36.80 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 97.60 | 32.80 |
Fenland | 97.60 | 17.60 |
Horsham | 97.60 | 15.20 |
Blackpool | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Broadland | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Corby | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Coventry | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Dacorum | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Middlesbrough | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Newry and Mourne | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Reading | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Rother | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Rugby | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Sandwell | 97.60 | 0.00 |
South Kesteven | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Southend-on-Sea | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Southwark | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Brent | 96.80 | 53.60 |
Worcestershire | 96.80 | 39.20 |
Barnet | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Carmarthenshire | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Cotswold | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Hart | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Oxford | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rochford | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Ryedale | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Swale | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Winchester | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Coleraine | 96.00 | 0.00 |
North Norfolk | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Scottish Borders | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Orkney | 95.20 | 56.80 |
Blaenau Gwent | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Maldon | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Medway | 95.20 | 0.00 |
South Northamptonshire | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Darlington | 94.40 | 60.00 |
Luton | 94.40 | 56.00 |
West Dunbartonshire | 93.60 | 15.20 |
Epping Forest | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Gravesham | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Lancashire | 92.80 | 7.20 |
Walsall | 92.00 | 47.20 |
Warrington | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Bromsgrove | 91.20 | 53.60 |
Dundee | 91.20 | 1.60 |
Cambridge | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Newport | 90.40 | 0.00 |
St Edmundsbury | 90.40 | 0.00 |
Wiltshire | 90.40 | 0.00 |
West Sussex | 89.60 | 41.60 |
Kettering | 89.60 | 6.40 |
Doncaster | 89.60 | 0.00 |
Ashfield | 88.00 | 0.00 |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 85.60 | 55.20 |
Halton | 85.60 | 0.00 |
Warwickshire | 85.60 | 0.00 |
Castlereagh | 84.80 | 0.00 |
West Somerset | 84.00 | 0.00 |
Basingstoke & Deane | 83.20 | 0.00 |
Lichfield | 81.60 | 0.00 |
Reigate and Banstead | 80.80 | 0.00 |
Northamptonshire | 80.00 | 0.00 |
Craigavon | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Wyre Forest | 76.80 | 0.00 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 75.20 | 0.80 |
Mole Valley | 75.20 | 0.00 |
Larne | 72.80 | 0.00 |
Hertsmere | 68.80 | 0.00 |
Castle Point | 61.60 | 0.00 |
Bridgend | 52.00 | 2.40 |
Ballymena | 51.20 | 0.00 |
Wealden | 36.00 | 0.00 |
Arun | 27.20 | 0.00 |
Birmingham | 16.00 | 0.80 |
Fylde | 8.80 | 3.20 |
Bournemouth | 5.60 | 0.00 |
Flintshire | 4.00 | 0.80 |
Staffordshire | 4.00 | 0.00 |
West Devon | 2.40 | 0.00 |
Derry | 1.60 | 0.00 |
East Ayrshire | 1.60 | 0.00 |
East Staffordshire | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Waveney | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Devon | 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.
- Bedford
- Buckinghamshire
- Chelmsford
- Cheshire East
- Chorley
- Dorset
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Hambleton
- Herefordshire
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Ipswich
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- New Forest
- North Down
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Runnymede
- Slough
- South Ribble
- Stafford
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Teignbridge
- Thurrock
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- West Lindsey
- West Lancashire
- Wycombe
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Devon
- Huntingdonshire
- Selby
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Bexley
- Clackmannanshire
- Rochdale
- South Lanarkshire
PDF testing
30.7% 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 |
30.68% |
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
29.55% |
url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
8.55% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
8.09% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
7.81% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
6.16% |
url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
3.54% |
url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
2.13% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.59% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.70% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.75% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
25.69% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.52% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
10.25% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.25% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.86% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.27% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.50% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.15% |
file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
2.05% |