2010 Q1/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
03 Feb 2010
- Total URLs tested:
75,042
- Total tests run:
24,553,100
- Total number of PDF's:
6,325
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.87%
- Pages failing code standards:
72.33%
- Pages missing a title:
2.46%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
12.69%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.15%
- Poorest code quality:
Lincolnshire Police (http://www.lincs.police.uk/) - 16,133 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Lothian and Borders Police (http://www.lbp.police.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 81.60 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 76.81 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 43.20 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 12.80 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 99.20 | 77.60 |
| Grampian Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 97.60 | 12.80 |
| West Midlands Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 95.20 | 43.20 |
| City of London Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 94.40 | 4.00 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 89.60 | 0.80 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 80.80 | 1.60 |
| British Transport Police | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 53.60 | 16.80 |
| Surrey Police | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 19.20 | 9.60 |
| Sussex Police | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 17.60 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cleveland Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Non-Emergency Crime
PDF testing
27.5% 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/notfound File not found |
45.41% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
14.27% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
14.09% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
10.61% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
5.28% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
4.96% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.04% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
1.16% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.07% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.70% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
24.76% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
23.89% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
21.46% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
9.12% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
6.04% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
4.14% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.73% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.54% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.65% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.99% |