2010 Q4/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
25 Oct 2010
- Total URLs tested:
82,408
- Total tests run:
26,897,338
- Total number of PDF's:
4,413
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.61%
- Pages failing code standards:
82.28%
- Pages missing a title:
2.14%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
21.10%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
93.47%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 17,419 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Nottinghamshire Police (http://www.nottinghamshire.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.01 | 938.71 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.02 | 4065.33 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.02 | 1429.20 |
| Surrey Police | 0.03 | 3390.13 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 502.74 |
| Essex Police | 0.04 | 439.24 |
| South Wales Police | 0.05 | 786.13 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.05 | 762.25 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.05 | 214.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.05 | 1639.40 |
| Dorset Police | 0.05 | 746.17 |
| Gwent Police | 0.05 | 1470.62 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.06 | 1945.95 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1399.56 |
| British Transport Police | 0.06 | 5011.88 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.06 | 873.40 |
| Grampian Police | 0.06 | 1712.76 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.07 | 1688.06 |
| Sussex Police | 0.07 | 903.27 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.07 | 782.23 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.07 | 1625.49 |
| City of London Police | 0.09 | 2406.01 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.09 | 994.56 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.09 | 1091.75 |
| North Wales Police | 0.09 | 987.22 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.09 | 179.42 |
| Kent Police | 0.10 | 345.39 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.10 | 1065.46 |
| Humberside Police | 0.11 | 1731.11 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.12 | 526.09 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.12 | 790.72 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.12 | 202.15 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.13 | 200.42 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.13 | 972.01 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.13 | 388.65 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.14 | 937.15 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.14 | 1462.68 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.16 | 4628.95 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.16 | 445.37 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.18 | 2519.21 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.20 | 64.41 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.22 | 4273.63 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.22 | 1354.90 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.26 | 550.12 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.28 | 501.31 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.31 | 630.17 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.32 | 517.37 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.36 | 497.97 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.36 | 2398.44 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.36 | 1489.87 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.39 | 865.86 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.40 | 960.36 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.44 | 554.88 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.46 | 448.49 |
| Tayside Police | 0.68 | 230.24 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.68 | 591.83 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 1.12 | 1041.47 |
| Wiltshire Police | 2.50 | 1631.45 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 94.40 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 82.40 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 75.20 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 23.20 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 16.80 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| City of London Police | 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 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders 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 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 97.60 | 44.80 |
| Fife Constabulary | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 88.80 | 0.80 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 84.00 | 1.60 |
| British Transport Police | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 66.40 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 54.40 | 23.20 |
| Strathclyde Police | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 4.80 | 0.80 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Sussex Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cheshire Police
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Sussex Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
36.5% 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 |
45.46% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
16.29% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
15.68% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
9.45% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
4.47% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
2.70% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
2.61% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.42% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.28% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.23% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
25.02% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
24.10% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
12.48% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
11.77% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
11.71% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
4.73% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.63% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.87% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
1.73% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
0.96% |