July 2009/UK Local Government



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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 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
Brentwood100.00100.00
Elmbridge100.00100.00
North Devon100.00100.00
Runnymede100.00100.00
Salford100.00100.00
Slough100.00100.00
South Norfolk100.00100.00
Surrey Heath100.00100.00
Barking &​ Dagenham100.0099.20
Hounslow100.0099.20
Hyndburn100.0099.20
North Tyneside100.0099.20
Taunton Deane100.0099.20
Thurrock100.0099.20
Broxtowe100.0098.40
Liverpool100.0098.40
Mid Sussex100.0098.40
Herefordshire100.0097.60
Merton100.0097.60
Stroud100.0097.60
Argyll &​ Bute100.0096.80
Shepway100.0096.80
Stockton-on-Tees100.0096.80
Wycombe100.0096.00
Lewes100.0095.20
Oldham100.0095.20
Richmond upon Thames​100.0095.20
Hillingdon100.0092.00
Calderdale100.0091.20
Charnwood100.0091.20
Eastleigh100.0091.20
Hertfordshire100.0091.20
Mansfield100.0091.20
New Forest100.0091.20
Rossendale100.0091.20
Tameside100.0091.20
Rhondda Cynon Taff100.0090.40
Torbay100.0090.40
York100.0090.40
South Holland100.0089.60
Warwick100.0088.00
Gedling100.0087.20
Woking100.0087.20
Derbyshire Dales100.0085.60
North Down100.0085.60
Solihull100.0084.80
Portsmouth100.0082.40
Spelthorne100.0082.40
Teignbridge100.0082.40
Gwynedd100.0081.60
Tandridge100.0081.60
Trafford100.0081.60
South Derbyshire100.0080.80
Redbridge100.0080.00
South Cambridgeshire​100.0080.00
Waltham Forest100.0080.00
Shropshire100.0078.40
East Lothian100.0077.60
Sunderland100.0077.60
Aberdeen100.0076.80
Mendip100.0076.00
Shetland Islands100.0076.00
Cannock Chase100.0074.40
Braintree100.0073.60
Kensington &​ Chelsea100.0072.80
Southampton100.0070.40
Bracknell Forest100.0069.60
Dover100.0069.60
Stirling100.0069.60
Worcester100.0068.80
Stafford100.0067.20
Torfaen100.0067.20
Cherwell100.0064.80
Hastings100.0064.80
Milton Keynes100.0064.80
South Tyneside100.0063.20
East Renfrewshire100.0062.40
Mid Devon100.0062.40
Vale of White Horse100.0061.60
Pendle100.0060.80
Enfield100.0059.20
Kirklees100.0059.20
Wychavon100.0059.20
South Bucks100.0057.60
Ceredigion100.0056.80
Isles of Scilly100.0056.80
Bristol100.0055.20
Barrow-in-Furness100.0052.80
Blaby100.0052.80
Hinckley &​ Bosworth100.0052.00
Central Bedfordshire​100.0051.20
South Ribble100.0048.80
Fareham100.0045.60
North Lanarkshire100.0044.00
Sheffield100.0044.00
North Yorkshire100.0043.20
Lancaster100.0041.60
Hampshire100.0040.80
Aberdeenshire100.0031.20
Dartford100.0029.60
Nuneaton &​ Bedworth100.0027.20
States of Jersey100.0027.20
East Riding of Yorks​hire100.0026.40
Harlow100.0025.60
Peterborough100.0025.60
Dumfries and Gallowa​y100.0024.80
North East Derbyshir​e100.0024.00
Wakefield100.0020.80
Hammersmith &​ Fulham100.0020.00
Chorley100.0019.20
South Ayrshire100.0019.20
Wyre100.0019.20
East Hertfordshire100.0017.60
Basildon100.0016.00
Haringey100.0015.20
Erewash100.0011.20
Camden100.009.60
Forest of Dean100.009.60
Hartlepool100.009.60
West Lothian100.009.60
Rushmoor100.008.80
Test Valley100.007.20
Chiltern100.005.60
Comhairle nan Eilean​ Siar100.005.60
West Oxfordshire100.005.60
Daventry100.004.80
Wrexham100.004.80
Great Yarmouth100.004.00
Harrogate100.004.00
Cardiff100.003.20
Blackburn with Darwe​n100.001.60
Colchester100.001.60
East Lindsey100.001.60
North West Leicester​shire100.001.60
Sevenoaks100.001.60
Tonbridge and Mallin​g100.001.60
Ards100.000.80
Cheshire West100.000.80
Falkirk100.000.80
Gateshead100.000.80
Isle of Wight100.000.80
North Hertfordshire100.000.80
North Warwickshire100.000.80
Redcar and Cleveland​100.000.80
Tower Hamlets100.000.80
Uttlesford100.000.80
Vale of Glamorgan100.000.80
Watford100.000.80
Westminster100.000.80
Worthing100.000.80
Allerdale100.000.00
Amber Valley100.000.00
Angus100.000.00
Antrim100.000.00
Armagh100.000.00
Aylesbury Vale100.000.00
Ballymoney100.000.00
Banbridge100.000.00
Bassetlaw100.000.00
Bath &​ North East Somerset​100.000.00
Bedford100.000.00
Bolsover100.000.00
Bradford100.000.00
Bromley100.000.00
Broxbourne100.000.00
Buckinghamshire100.000.00
Bury100.000.00
Chelmsford100.000.00
Chesterfield100.000.00
Chichester100.000.00
Conwy100.000.00
Cookstown100.000.00
Copeland100.000.00
Craven100.000.00
Denbighshire100.000.00
Derby100.000.00
Down100.000.00
Dudley100.000.00
Dungannon100.000.00
Durham100.000.00
Ealing100.000.00
East Cambridgeshire100.000.00
East Devon100.000.00
East Northamptonshir​e100.000.00
East Sussex100.000.00
Eastbourne100.000.00
Epsom &​ Ewell100.000.00
Fermanagh100.000.00
Fife100.000.00
Forest Heath100.000.00
Gloucester100.000.00
Greenwich100.000.00
Guildford100.000.00
Hambleton100.000.00
Harborough100.000.00
Harrow100.000.00
Havant100.000.00
Havering100.000.00
Highland100.000.00
Inverclyde100.000.00
Ipswich100.000.00
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
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 Kesteven100.000.00
North Somerset100.000.00
Northumberland100.000.00
Nottingham100.000.00
Nottinghamshire100.000.00
Oadby &​ Wigston100.000.00
Pembrokeshire100.000.00
Poole100.000.00
Preston100.000.00
Purbeck100.000.00
Renfrewshire100.000.00
Rushcliffe100.000.00
Rutland100.000.00
Scarborough100.000.00
Sefton100.000.00
South Gloucestershir​e100.000.00
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
Telford &​ Wrekin100.000.00
Thanet100.000.00
Three Rivers100.000.00
Torridge100.000.00
Tunbridge Wells100.000.00
Waverley100.000.00
Wellingborough100.000.00
Welwyn Hatfield100.000.00
West Berkshire100.000.00
West Lancashire100.000.00
West Lindsey100.000.00
Weymouth &​ Portland100.000.00
Wirral100.000.00
Wokingham100.000.00
Barnsley99.2096.00
Eden99.2095.20
Derbyshire99.2086.40
City of London99.2077.60
South Somerset99.2064.80
Wolverhampton99.2064.80
Sedgemoor99.2064.00
Ribble Valley99.2060.80
Gloucestershire99.2057.60
Malvern Hills99.2055.20
Canterbury99.2052.80
Redditch99.2043.20
Northampton99.2018.40
Brighton and Hove99.2013.60
Carlisle99.206.40
London Mayor99.203.20
Rotherham99.202.40
Newtownabbey99.201.60
Moyle99.200.80
Omagh99.200.80
St Albans99.200.80
Ashford99.200.00
Babergh99.200.00
Belfast99.200.00
Bolton99.200.00
Cambridgeshire99.200.00
Cheltenham99.200.00
Crawley99.200.00
Croydon99.200.00
Cumbria99.200.00
Dorset99.200.00
Exeter99.200.00
Glasgow99.200.00
Hackney99.200.00
Hull99.200.00
Islington99.200.00
King's Lynn &​ West Norfolk99.200.00
Lewisham99.200.00
Lincoln99.200.00
Magherafelt99.200.00
Maidstone99.200.00
Mid Suffolk99.200.00
Moray99.200.00
Oxfordshire99.200.00
Perth &​ Kinross99.200.00
Plymouth99.200.00
South Hams99.200.00
Stoke-on-Trent99.200.00
Swindon99.200.00
Tamworth99.200.00
Tendring99.200.00
Tewkesbury99.200.00
Wandsworth99.200.00
Wigan99.200.00
Burnley98.4080.80
Essex98.4072.00
Carrickfergus98.4063.20
Norwich98.4049.60
Richmondshire98.4048.00
East Dunbartonshire98.4032.80
Caerphilly98.400.80
Edinburgh98.400.80
Somerset98.400.80
Boston98.400.00
Breckland98.400.00
Cheshire East98.400.00
Cornwall98.400.00
East Hampshire98.400.00
Gosport98.400.00
Newcastle upon Tyne98.400.00
Newcastle-under-Lyme​98.400.00
North Dorset98.400.00
North Lincolnshire98.400.00
Powys98.400.00
South Oxfordshire98.400.00
Swansea98.400.00
Manchester97.6050.40
High Peak97.6036.80
Windsor and Maidenhe​ad97.6032.80
Fenland97.6017.60
Horsham97.6015.20
Blackpool97.600.00
Broadland97.600.00
Corby97.600.00
Coventry97.600.00
Dacorum97.600.00
Middlesbrough97.600.00
Newry and Mourne97.600.00
Reading97.600.00
Rother97.600.00
Rugby97.600.00
Sandwell97.600.00
South Kesteven97.600.00
Southend-on-Sea97.600.00
Southwark97.600.00
Brent96.8053.60
Worcestershire96.8039.20
Barnet96.800.00
Carmarthenshire96.800.00
Cotswold96.800.00
Hart96.800.00
Oxford96.800.00
Rochford96.800.00
Ryedale96.800.00
Swale96.800.00
Winchester96.800.00
Coleraine96.000.00
North Norfolk96.000.00
Scottish Borders96.000.00
Orkney95.2056.80
Blaenau Gwent95.200.00
Maldon95.200.00
Medway95.200.00
South Northamptonshi​re95.200.00
Darlington94.4060.00
Luton94.4056.00
West Dunbartonshire93.6015.20
Epping Forest93.600.00
Gravesham93.600.00
Lancashire92.807.20
Walsall92.0047.20
Warrington92.000.00
Bromsgrove91.2053.60
Dundee91.201.60
Cambridge90.400.00
Newport90.400.00
St Edmundsbury90.400.00
Wiltshire90.400.00
West Sussex89.6041.60
Kettering89.606.40
Doncaster89.600.00
Ashfield88.000.00
Staffordshire Moorla​nds85.6055.20
Halton85.600.00
Warwickshire85.600.00
Castlereagh84.800.00
West Somerset84.000.00
Basingstoke &​ Deane83.200.00
Lichfield81.600.00
Reigate and Banstead​80.800.00
Northamptonshire80.000.00
Craigavon78.400.00
Wyre Forest76.800.00
Merthyr Tydfil75.200.80
Mole Valley75.200.00
Larne72.800.00
Hertsmere68.800.00
Castle Point61.600.00
Bridgend52.002.40
Ballymena51.200.00
Wealden36.000.00
Arun27.200.00
Birmingham16.000.80
Fylde8.803.20
Bournemouth5.600.00
Flintshire4.000.80
Staffordshire4.000.00
West Devon2.400.00
Derry1.600.00
East Ayrshire1.600.00
East Staffordshire1.600.00
Waveney1.600.00
Devon0.000.00
Huntingdonshire0.000.00
Selby0.000.00
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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
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Devon
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Selby
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Bexley
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Rochdale
  • South Lanarkshire
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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.

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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%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
25.75%
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%