September 2006/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    28 Sep 2006

  • Total URLs tested:

    26,487

  • Total tests run:

    8,627,879

  • Total number of PDF's:

    754

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    5.57%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    63.85%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.09%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    24.73%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    92.25%

  • Poorest code quality:

    West Midlands Police (http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/) - 14,790 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    National Crime Squad (http://www.ncs.police.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
Gwent Police100.0093.70
Greater Manchester P​olice100.0091.27
Cheshire Police100.0081.89
National Crime Squad​100.0062.07
Lancashire Police100.0034.88
Essex Police100.0028.12
South Yorkshire Poli​ce100.0013.49
Cleveland Police100.000.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Durham Constabulary100.000.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry100.000.00
Non-Emergency Crime100.000.00
Northumbria Police100.000.00
Police Information T​echnology Organisati​on100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
Bedfordshire Police99.210.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​99.210.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary99.210.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary99.210.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e99.210.00
Wiltshire Police99.210.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary98.410.00
Fife Constabulary97.670.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry97.660.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary97.6072.80
Lothian and Borders ​Police96.880.00
North Wales Police96.090.00
Sussex Police96.000.80
Warwickshire Police ​Force94.400.00
Grampian Police93.650.00
Kent Police92.970.00
Norfolk Constabulary​92.800.00
Association of Polic​e Authorities92.190.00
West Midlands Police​88.100.00
Cumbria Police88.001.60
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary86.720.00
City of London Polic​e86.720.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service85.040.00
Northern Constabular​y79.690.00
Lincolnshire Police77.950.00
Staffordshire Police​76.380.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary73.810.00
Surrey Police72.870.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce69.050.00
Humberside Police64.000.00
British Transport Po​lice37.500.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice14.840.00
Strathclyde Police12.000.00
South Wales Police10.164.69
Thames Valley Police​7.870.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary4.760.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland3.100.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce2.940.00
Merseyside Police2.380.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce1.590.00
Dorset Police1.570.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Central Scotland Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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PDF testing

14.7% 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.

file/url/offtop
None
59.23%
file/url/badpath
None
16.36%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
10.22%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.80%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.89%
file/html/notitle
None
1.74%
file/url/badquery
None
1.34%
file/html/longmeta
None
1.14%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.05%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.96%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
23.11%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
21.67%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
15.36%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
9.83%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
9.49%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.61%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.43%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.10%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
1.33%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
0.41%