August 2009/UK Local Government
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
27 Aug 2009
- Total URLs tested:
245,392
- Total tests run:
79,849,900
- Total number of PDF's:
3,750
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.90%
- Pages failing code standards:
54.86%
- Pages missing a title:
0.39%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
4.91%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
75.94%
- Poorest code quality:
St Albans (http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/) - 59,178 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Slough (http://www.slough.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 |
Herefordshire | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Liverpool | 100.00 | 100.00 |
North Devon | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Thurrock | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Barking & Dagenham | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Salford | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Slough | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Surrey Heath | 100.00 | 99.20 |
Hounslow | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Hyndburn | 100.00 | 98.40 |
North Tyneside | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Shepway | 100.00 | 98.40 |
South Norfolk | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Taunton Deane | 100.00 | 98.40 |
Broxtowe | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Mid Sussex | 100.00 | 97.60 |
Argyll & Bute | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Barnsley | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Merton | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Stroud | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Tameside | 100.00 | 96.80 |
Elmbridge | 100.00 | 96.00 |
North Down | 100.00 | 96.00 |
Rossendale | 100.00 | 95.20 |
South Ayrshire | 100.00 | 95.20 |
Wycombe | 100.00 | 95.20 |
York | 100.00 | 94.40 |
Lewes | 100.00 | 93.60 |
Richmond upon Thames | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Torbay | 100.00 | 92.80 |
Calderdale | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Eastleigh | 100.00 | 92.00 |
New Forest | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Portsmouth | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Woking | 100.00 | 92.00 |
Hillingdon | 100.00 | 91.20 |
South Cambridgeshire | 100.00 | 91.20 |
Derbyshire | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Runnymede | 100.00 | 89.60 |
Rhondda Cynon Taff | 100.00 | 88.80 |
Charnwood | 100.00 | 88.00 |
Kirklees | 100.00 | 88.00 |
Gedling | 100.00 | 85.60 |
Waltham Forest | 100.00 | 85.60 |
South Derbyshire | 100.00 | 84.80 |
Great Yarmouth | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Gwynedd | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Redbridge | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Teignbridge | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Warwick | 100.00 | 84.00 |
Tandridge | 100.00 | 83.20 |
Oldham | 100.00 | 82.40 |
Spelthorne | 100.00 | 82.40 |
Aberdeen | 100.00 | 79.20 |
City of London | 100.00 | 79.20 |
Stafford | 100.00 | 79.20 |
South Holland | 100.00 | 77.60 |
Derbyshire Dales | 100.00 | 76.00 |
South Tyneside | 100.00 | 74.40 |
East Lothian | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Solihull | 100.00 | 73.60 |
South Bucks | 100.00 | 73.60 |
Braintree | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Cannock Chase | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Castle Point | 100.00 | 71.20 |
East Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Southampton | 100.00 | 71.20 |
Bracknell Forest | 100.00 | 68.80 |
Cherwell | 100.00 | 66.40 |
Trafford | 100.00 | 66.40 |
Mid Devon | 100.00 | 65.60 |
Aylesbury Vale | 100.00 | 64.80 |
Bexley | 100.00 | 64.00 |
Stirling | 100.00 | 63.20 |
Vale of White Horse | 100.00 | 62.40 |
Wolverhampton | 100.00 | 59.20 |
Bristol | 100.00 | 58.40 |
North Yorkshire | 100.00 | 58.40 |
Sheffield | 100.00 | 57.60 |
Bromsgrove | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Fareham | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Wychavon | 100.00 | 56.80 |
Basildon | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Ceredigion | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Eden | 100.00 | 56.00 |
Sedgemoor | 100.00 | 56.00 |
North Lanarkshire | 100.00 | 55.20 |
Torfaen | 100.00 | 55.20 |
Mansfield | 100.00 | 54.40 |
Test Valley | 100.00 | 54.40 |
Hinckley & Bosworth | 100.00 | 53.60 |
Enfield | 100.00 | 52.80 |
States of Jersey | 100.00 | 52.80 |
Isles of Scilly | 100.00 | 47.20 |
Lancaster | 100.00 | 47.20 |
East Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 42.40 |
Blaby | 100.00 | 40.00 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 100.00 | 39.20 |
Harlow | 100.00 | 36.80 |
Central Bedfordshire | 100.00 | 36.00 |
South Ribble | 100.00 | 36.00 |
Haringey | 100.00 | 35.20 |
Milton Keynes | 100.00 | 35.20 |
Hammersmith & Fulham | 100.00 | 34.40 |
Torridge | 100.00 | 32.00 |
Aberdeenshire | 100.00 | 30.40 |
North East Derbyshire | 100.00 | 28.00 |
Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 27.20 |
Peterborough | 100.00 | 27.20 |
Chorley | 100.00 | 23.20 |
West Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 21.60 |
Wakefield | 100.00 | 20.80 |
Wyre | 100.00 | 16.80 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 100.00 | 13.60 |
North West Leicestershire | 100.00 | 13.60 |
North Warwickshire | 100.00 | 12.80 |
Erewash | 100.00 | 12.00 |
West Lothian | 100.00 | 9.60 |
Cardiff | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Forest of Dean | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Hartlepool | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Rushmoor | 100.00 | 7.20 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 100.00 | 6.40 |
Isle of Wight | 100.00 | 6.40 |
Camden | 100.00 | 5.60 |
Daventry | 100.00 | 5.60 |
North Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 4.00 |
Havant | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Tonbridge and Malling | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Wrexham | 100.00 | 3.20 |
Dover | 100.00 | 2.40 |
Sevenoaks | 100.00 | 2.40 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Harrogate | 100.00 | 1.60 |
Cheshire West | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Colchester | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Falkirk | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Gateshead | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Newtownabbey | 100.00 | 0.80 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 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 |
Ballymoney | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bassetlaw | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bath & North East Somerset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Bedford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Belfast | 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 |
Cheshire East | 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 |
Cumbria | 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 Lindsey | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Lincoln | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Magherafelt | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Melton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Monmouthshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Neath Port Talbot | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Newark and Sherwood | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Newham | 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 |
Nuneaton & Bedworth | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Oadby & Wigston | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Omagh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Pembrokeshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Perth & Kinross | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Poole | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Preston | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Reigate and Banstead | 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 |
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 |
Telford & Wrekin | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Thanet | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Three Rivers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Tower Hamlets | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Tunbridge Wells | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Uttlesford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Waverley | 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 |
Wigan | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wirral | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Wokingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Mendip | 99.20 | 76.80 |
Ribble Valley | 99.20 | 68.00 |
Worcester | 99.20 | 68.00 |
Hastings | 99.20 | 61.60 |
Canterbury | 99.20 | 56.80 |
Gloucestershire | 99.20 | 56.80 |
Hampshire | 99.20 | 55.20 |
Malvern Hills | 99.20 | 52.80 |
East Dunbartonshire | 99.20 | 32.80 |
Shetland Islands | 99.20 | 22.40 |
Chiltern | 99.20 | 14.40 |
Brighton and Hove | 99.20 | 13.60 |
Carlisle | 99.20 | 5.60 |
Lancashire | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Moyle | 99.20 | 0.80 |
Babergh | 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 |
Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Dundee | 99.20 | 0.00 |
East Hampshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Epping Forest | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Exeter | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hackney | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Hull | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Kent | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Lewisham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Maidstone | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Mid Suffolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
North Dorset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Oxfordshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Purbeck | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Rother | 99.20 | 0.00 |
South Hams | 99.20 | 0.00 |
South Kesteven | 99.20 | 0.00 |
South Oxfordshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
St Albans | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tendring | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Tewkesbury | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Wellingborough | 99.20 | 0.00 |
Sunderland | 98.40 | 89.60 |
Carrickfergus | 98.40 | 54.40 |
South Somerset | 98.40 | 48.80 |
Norwich | 98.40 | 48.00 |
High Peak | 98.40 | 21.60 |
Northampton | 98.40 | 17.60 |
Richmondshire | 98.40 | 17.60 |
Caerphilly | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Dartford | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Somerset | 98.40 | 0.80 |
Banbridge | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Breckland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Cornwall | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Glasgow | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Gosport | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Hart | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Islington | 98.40 | 0.00 |
King's Lynn & West Norfolk | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Lisburn | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Middlesbrough | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Moray | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Norfolk | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Powys | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Southwark | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Swindon | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Tamworth | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Burnley | 97.60 | 74.40 |
Manchester | 97.60 | 41.60 |
Worcestershire | 97.60 | 39.20 |
Edinburgh | 97.60 | 8.00 |
Rotherham | 97.60 | 2.40 |
London Mayor | 97.60 | 0.80 |
Barnet | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Broadland | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Corby | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Cotswold | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Dacorum | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Newry and Mourne | 97.60 | 0.00 |
North Lincolnshire | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Sandwell | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Shropshire | 96.80 | 76.00 |
Basingstoke & Deane | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Boston | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Reading | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rochford | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Rugby | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Ryedale | 96.80 | 0.00 |
St Edmundsbury | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Winchester | 96.80 | 0.00 |
Redditch | 96.00 | 44.00 |
Horsham | 96.00 | 13.60 |
Blackpool | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Carmarthenshire | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Coleraine | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Coventry | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Gravesham | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Hertsmere | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Pendle | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Scottish Borders | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Darlington | 95.20 | 52.80 |
Brent | 95.20 | 48.00 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 95.20 | 43.20 |
Luton | 94.40 | 56.00 |
Orkney | 94.40 | 45.60 |
Wandsworth | 94.40 | 43.20 |
West Dunbartonshire | 94.40 | 25.60 |
North Norfolk | 94.40 | 8.00 |
Swale | 94.40 | 0.00 |
Swansea | 94.40 | 0.00 |
South Northamptonshire | 93.60 | 0.00 |
West Somerset | 93.60 | 0.00 |
Cambridge | 92.80 | 0.00 |
Medway | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Plymouth | 92.00 | 0.00 |
Walsall | 91.20 | 51.20 |
Fenland | 91.20 | 16.80 |
Kettering | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Maldon | 91.20 | 0.00 |
Essex | 90.91 | 0.00 |
Wiltshire | 90.40 | 0.00 |
West Sussex | 89.60 | 30.40 |
Blaenau Gwent | 89.60 | 0.00 |
Warwickshire | 89.60 | 0.00 |
Doncaster | 88.80 | 0.00 |
Lichfield | 88.80 | 0.00 |
Newport | 88.00 | 0.00 |
Worthing | 87.20 | 0.80 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 86.40 | 0.00 |
Northamptonshire | 84.80 | 0.00 |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 84.00 | 56.80 |
Halton | 83.20 | 0.00 |
Ashfield | 82.40 | 0.00 |
Warrington | 79.20 | 0.00 |
Castlereagh | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Midlothian | 78.40 | 0.00 |
Craigavon | 75.20 | 0.00 |
Wyre Forest | 75.20 | 0.00 |
Larne | 73.60 | 0.00 |
Southend-on-Sea | 71.20 | 0.00 |
Arun | 68.00 | 0.00 |
Oxford | 68.00 | 0.00 |
Mole Valley | 64.80 | 8.00 |
Staffordshire | 64.80 | 0.00 |
Birmingham | 51.20 | 0.80 |
Ballymena | 50.40 | 0.00 |
Kensington & Chelsea | 50.40 | 0.00 |
Bridgend | 45.60 | 0.00 |
Wealden | 44.80 | 0.00 |
West Devon | 12.00 | 0.00 |
Fylde | 9.60 | 3.20 |
Bournemouth | 4.00 | 0.80 |
Flintshire | 2.40 | 0.80 |
Derry | 2.40 | 0.00 |
East Staffordshire | 2.40 | 0.00 |
Waveney | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Devon | 0.00 | 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.
- Belfast
- Broxbourne
- Camden
- Chelmsford
- Cheshire East
- Dorset
- Eden
- Exeter
- Fareham
- States of Jersey
- Hambleton
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Isle of Wight
- Ipswich
- Mansfield
- Moyle
- North Down
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rossendale
- Runnymede
- Rutland
- Slough
- South Ribble
- South Staffordshire
- Taunton Deane
- Teignbridge
- Thurrock
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wakefield
- West Lindsey
- Vale of White Horse
- Worthing
- Wyre
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Devon
- East Ayrshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Selby
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Clackmannanshire
- Rochdale
- South Lanarkshire
PDF testing
29.7% 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 |
34.17% |
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
27.76% |
url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
11.88% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
7.63% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
6.97% |
url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
6.12% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.78% |
url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.13% |
url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.70% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.69% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
28.65% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
28.55% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
10.77% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
10.46% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.20% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.84% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.21% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.13% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
2.04% |
file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
1.65% |