2010 Q3/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
22 Jul 2010
- Total URLs tested:
80,297
- Total tests run:
26,211,237
- Total number of PDF's:
4,412
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.01%
- Pages failing code standards:
81.72%
- Pages missing a title:
2.97%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
15.50%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.49%
- Poorest code quality:
Lincolnshire Police (http://www.lincs.police.uk/) - 17,016 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 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 79.20 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 32.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 100.00 | 23.20 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 47.20 |
| Wiltshire Police | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| City of London Police | 95.20 | 0.80 |
| Durham Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 88.80 | 0.80 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 83.20 | 1.60 |
| Sussex Police | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 46.40 | 21.60 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 35.20 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 16.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cleveland Police
- Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
28.0% 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 |
49.03% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
13.05% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
11.52% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
8.38% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
6.44% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
4.05% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
2.60% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
1.98% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.45% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.91% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
23.40% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
20.51% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
19.01% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
11.69% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
11.53% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
4.11% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.66% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.71% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
1.49% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
0.98% |