2010 Q3/UK Local Government
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Sep 2010
- Total URLs tested:
926,026
- Total tests run:
301,981,134
- Total number of PDF's:
39,334
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.47%
- Pages failing code standards:
68.66%
- Pages missing a title:
0.67%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
6.05%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
83.00%
- Poorest code quality:
St Albans (http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/) - 61,412 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Newry and Mourne (http://www.newryandmourne.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Barking & Dagenham | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Cornwall | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Great Yarmouth | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| North Devon | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Salford | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Thurrock | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Slough | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 100.00 | 99.20 |
| Adur | 100.00 | 98.40 |
| Lewes | 100.00 | 98.40 |
| Blaby | 100.00 | 97.60 |
| Mid Sussex | 100.00 | 97.60 |
| Runnymede | 100.00 | 97.60 |
| Hounslow | 100.00 | 96.80 |
| Eden | 100.00 | 96.00 |
| North Tyneside | 100.00 | 96.00 |
| Barnsley | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Stroud | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Shepway | 100.00 | 94.40 |
| York | 100.00 | 94.40 |
| Woking | 100.00 | 93.60 |
| Calderdale | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| Brentwood | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Sedgemoor | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Highland | 100.00 | 89.60 |
| South Derbyshire | 100.00 | 89.60 |
| Surrey Heath | 100.00 | 89.60 |
| Hillingdon | 100.00 | 88.80 |
| Gedling | 100.00 | 88.00 |
| North Down | 100.00 | 86.40 |
| Wycombe | 100.00 | 85.60 |
| Solihull | 100.00 | 84.80 |
| Aberdeen | 100.00 | 83.20 |
| Gwynedd | 100.00 | 83.20 |
| City of London | 100.00 | 81.60 |
| Kensington & Chelsea | 100.00 | 76.00 |
| South Holland | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Stafford | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Mendip | 100.00 | 72.00 |
| Swale | 100.00 | 72.00 |
| Redbridge | 100.00 | 71.20 |
| Southampton | 100.00 | 71.20 |
| Torbay | 100.00 | 71.20 |
| Braintree | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| Castle Point | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| Ribble Valley | 100.00 | 64.00 |
| South Norfolk | 100.00 | 63.20 |
| Aylesbury Vale | 100.00 | 60.00 |
| Bristol | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| East Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| North Lanarkshire | 100.00 | 56.80 |
| Derbyshire Dales | 100.00 | 52.80 |
| East Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 52.00 |
| Hastings | 100.00 | 51.20 |
| Derbyshire | 100.00 | 50.40 |
| North Yorkshire | 100.00 | 50.40 |
| Sheffield | 100.00 | 50.40 |
| Bexley | 100.00 | 48.80 |
| Lancaster | 100.00 | 48.80 |
| Isles of Scilly | 100.00 | 44.80 |
| South Ribble | 100.00 | 42.40 |
| East Lothian | 100.00 | 40.00 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 100.00 | 37.60 |
| Haringey | 100.00 | 35.20 |
| Test Valley | 100.00 | 31.20 |
| Liverpool | 100.00 | 29.60 |
| Aberdeenshire | 100.00 | 27.20 |
| Dartford | 100.00 | 24.00 |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff | 100.00 | 24.00 |
| West Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 24.00 |
| South Tyneside | 100.00 | 23.20 |
| Chorley | 100.00 | 22.40 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 100.00 | 20.80 |
| Herefordshire | 100.00 | 20.80 |
| North East Derbyshire | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| Isle of Wight | 100.00 | 12.80 |
| Oldham | 100.00 | 10.40 |
| South Ayrshire | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Ceredigion | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| New Forest | 100.00 | 2.40 |
| Hampshire | 100.00 | 1.85 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Manchester | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| North Hertfordshire | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Rotherham | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Barrow-in-Furness | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Carlisle | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Chichester | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Fylde | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Milton Keynes | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Rushcliffe | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Scarborough | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Stirling | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Tandridge | 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 |
| 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 |
| Birmingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Boston | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bracknell Forest | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bradford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bromley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bromsgrove | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Broxbourne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Broxtowe | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Buckinghamshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Burnley | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bury | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cambridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Camden | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cannock Chase | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Bedfordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charnwood | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chelmsford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cherwell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire West | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chesterfield | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Colchester | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Conwy | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Copeland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Craven | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Croydon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derby | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dorset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dover | 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 Dunbartonshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| East Northamptonshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| East Sussex | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Eastbourne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Elmbridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Epsom & Ewell | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Erewash | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Exeter | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Falkirk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fareham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Forest of Dean | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gateshead | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Greenwich | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hambleton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Harborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Harlow | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Harrogate | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hart | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Havering | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hinckley & Bosworth | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hull | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Huntingdonshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Inverclyde | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ipswich | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Isle of Anglesey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Kent | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| King's Lynn & West Norfolk | 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 |
| Leicestershire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Limavady | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lincoln | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Maidstone | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Malvern Hills | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Melton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Mid Devon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Midlothian | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Moray | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Newark and Sherwood | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Newham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Newtownabbey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Ayrshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Dorset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North Kesteven | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| North West Leicestershire | 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 |
| Omagh | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Oxfordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Pembrokeshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Peterborough | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Purbeck | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Redditch | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Renfrewshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Richmondshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rochdale | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rochford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rugby | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rushmoor | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Rutland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ryedale | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Sefton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Sevenoaks | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Shropshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Bucks | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Gloucestershire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Hams | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Lakeland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Staffordshire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Southwark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Spelthorne | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| States of Jersey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stevenage | 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 |
| Sunderland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Surrey | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Sutton | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Teignbridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tendring | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Three Rivers | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Torfaen | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Torridge | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tower Hamlets | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Uttlesford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Vale of White Horse | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Waltham Forest | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwick | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Watford | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| West Lancashire | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| West Somerset | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| West Sussex | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Westminster | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Weymouth & Portland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wokingham | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wychavon | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wyre | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wyre Forest | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hyndburn | 99.20 | 97.60 |
| Merton | 99.20 | 92.80 |
| Basildon | 99.20 | 91.20 |
| Hertfordshire | 99.20 | 82.40 |
| South Cambridgeshire | 99.20 | 80.80 |
| Norwich | 99.20 | 60.80 |
| Shetland Islands | 99.20 | 50.40 |
| Thanet | 99.20 | 45.60 |
| Enfield | 99.20 | 44.80 |
| St Helens | 99.20 | 41.60 |
| East Lindsey | 99.20 | 39.20 |
| Daventry | 99.20 | 30.40 |
| Guildford | 99.20 | 28.80 |
| Trafford | 99.20 | 23.20 |
| London Mayor | 99.20 | 19.20 |
| Wellingborough | 99.20 | 18.40 |
| Brent | 99.20 | 12.80 |
| Chiltern | 99.20 | 7.20 |
| North Warwickshire | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| Wrexham | 99.20 | 2.40 |
| Ards | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Argyll & Bute | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Babergh | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Banbridge | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Bolsover | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Brighton and Hove | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Canterbury | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cheltenham | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Coleraine | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cookstown | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Coventry | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Crawley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Devon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| East Devon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| East Hampshire | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Mid Suffolk | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Neath Port Talbot | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Oadby & Wigston | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Portsmouth | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Powys | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Preston | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Reading | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Reigate and Banstead | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Rother | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Somerset | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| St Albans | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| St Edmundsbury | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Swindon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wakefield | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wandsworth | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Waverley | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| West Devon | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| West Lindsey | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Tameside | 98.40 | 93.60 |
| Kirklees | 98.40 | 84.80 |
| Gravesham | 98.40 | 72.80 |
| Mansfield | 98.40 | 68.00 |
| Orkney | 98.40 | 55.20 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 98.40 | 9.60 |
| Worcester | 98.40 | 5.60 |
| Cardiff | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Blackpool | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Breckland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire East | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| East Cambridgeshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Fermanagh | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Magherafelt | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Middlesbrough | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| South Oxfordshire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Tamworth | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Telford & Wrekin | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Tewkesbury | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Welwyn Hatfield | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| West Lothian | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wirral | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Worcestershire | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Luton | 97.60 | 73.60 |
| Rossendale | 97.60 | 71.20 |
| Mole Valley | 97.60 | 61.60 |
| Northampton | 97.60 | 19.20 |
| Carrickfergus | 97.60 | 5.60 |
| Bolton | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Corby | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Dacorum | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Glasgow | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Horsham | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Lewisham | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Monmouthshire | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Taunton Deane | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wolverhampton | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Darlington | 96.80 | 57.60 |
| Dundee | 96.80 | 52.80 |
| Gloucestershire | 96.80 | 23.20 |
| North Norfolk | 96.80 | 9.60 |
| Gosport | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| Hackney | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| North Lincolnshire | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Sandwell | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ashfield | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Barnet | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Denbighshire | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Eastleigh | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Islington | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Lisburn | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Pendle | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Plymouth | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 95.20 | 36.00 |
| Havant | 95.20 | 2.40 |
| Basingstoke & Deane | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Epping Forest | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Hertsmere | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| South Northamptonshire | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Moyle | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| Maldon | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Leicester | 93.60 | 22.40 |
| Cotswold | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Doncaster | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Borders | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| High Peak | 92.80 | 28.00 |
| Cambridgeshire | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Medway | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Poole | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| South Kesteven | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Swansea | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Newry and Mourne | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Wigan | 90.67 | 0.00 |
| Worthing | 89.60 | 24.00 |
| Winchester | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Carmarthenshire | 88.80 | 0.80 |
| Oxford | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Hammersmith & Fulham | 87.20 | 9.60 |
| Lichfield | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Edinburgh | 86.40 | 0.80 |
| Blaenau Gwent | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Caerphilly | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire | 85.60 | 8.00 |
| Bridgend | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Kettering | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Perth & Kinross | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Broadland | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Castlereagh | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Larne | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 77.60 | 53.60 |
| Newport | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Arun | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| East Staffordshire | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Hartlepool | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Harrow | 70.40 | 28.80 |
| Fenland | 70.40 | 10.40 |
| Fife | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Warrington | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire | 34.40 | 0.00 |
| Ballymena | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| Craigavon | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Forest Heath | 16.00 | 0.00 |
| Gloucester | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| West Berkshire | 7.20 | 1.60 |
| Wealden | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Flintshire | 3.20 | 0.80 |
| Derry | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Halton | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Bournemouth | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Waveney | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| East Ayrshire | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Selby | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| South Somerset | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Stockport | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Walsall | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Aberdeen
- Barking & Dagenham
- East Renfrewshire
- Gwynedd
- Hampshire
- Harlow
- Larne
- Lewisham
- North Devon
- North Down
- Redbridge
- Rushmoor
- Slough
- Stockport
- Surrey
- Thurrock
- Wakefield
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- East Ayrshire
- Norfolk
- Selby
- South Somerset
- Stockport
- Walsall
- Wiltshire
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Clackmannanshire
- North Somerset
- South Lanarkshire
PDF testing
30.5% 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 |
46.75% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
25.70% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
14.01% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
5.17% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.91% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
2.50% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.32% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.83% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.20% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.18% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
27.17% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
17.96% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
15.44% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
15.38% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.93% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.02% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.61% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.56% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
1.55% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
1.48% |