2011 Q1/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Feb 2011
- Total URLs tested:
85,452
- Total tests run:
27,886,560
- Total number of PDF's:
4,410
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.73%
- Pages failing code standards:
74.21%
- Pages missing a title:
2.28%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
23.75%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.34%
- Poorest code quality:
Lincolnshire Police (http://www.lincs.police.uk/) - 18,037 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Essex Police (http://www.essex.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.01 | 858.52 |
| Essex Police | 0.01 | 485.57 |
| Surrey Police | 0.01 | 2568.02 |
| British Transport Police | 0.02 | 5660.30 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.02 | 1330.46 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.02 | 816.73 |
| North Wales Police | 0.02 | 994.27 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.02 | 899.94 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.02 | 3786.84 |
| Grampian Police | 0.03 | 2406.32 |
| Gwent Police | 0.03 | 1704.49 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.04 | 1374.22 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.04 | 2115.44 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 618.61 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.04 | 1179.15 |
| South Wales Police | 0.04 | 908.60 |
| Dorset Police | 0.04 | 826.35 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.04 | 1593.54 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.05 | 225.52 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.06 | 177.71 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.06 | 654.94 |
| City of London Police | 0.07 | 2791.02 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.07 | 527.16 |
| Kent Police | 0.07 | 170.96 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.08 | 772.73 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.08 | 678.17 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.09 | 1008.31 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.09 | 5907.08 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.09 | 1026.62 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.09 | 182.48 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.10 | 666.05 |
| Sussex Police | 0.10 | 865.83 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.12 | 535.11 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.13 | 2375.81 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.13 | 523.38 |
| Humberside Police | 0.14 | 1835.49 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.14 | 887.63 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.15 | 387.90 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.17 | 745.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.18 | 1011.76 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.21 | 172.89 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.25 | 1629.59 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.26 | 65.52 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.27 | 1127.29 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.30 | 445.09 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.30 | 773.58 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.33 | 821.68 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.43 | 434.82 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.44 | 881.93 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.47 | 1674.77 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.54 | 1050.17 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.58 | 677.18 |
| Tayside Police | 0.59 | 317.99 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.65 | 714.47 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.69 | 327.21 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 1.19 | 1441.35 |
| Wiltshire Police | 4.36 | 1144.19 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 92.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 81.60 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 56.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 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 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 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 |
| 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 |
| Grampian Police | 99.20 | 20.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| City of London Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 97.60 | 37.60 |
| Fife Constabulary | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 85.60 | 1.60 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 85.60 | 0.80 |
| Cheshire Police | 81.60 | 41.60 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 63.20 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 49.60 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 44.80 | 37.60 |
| Strathclyde Police | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 12.00 | 2.40 |
| North Wales Police | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 14.40 |
| Sussex Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cheshire Police
- Cleveland Police
- Tayside 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.
- Metropolitan Police Service
PDF testing
38.3% 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 |
45.65% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
13.85% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
7.89% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
7.86% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
7.52% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
6.36% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
4.95% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
2.66% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
2.35% |
| url/fetch/badstatus Bad HTTP status returned by server |
0.25% |
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 |
28.30% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
22.79% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
11.46% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
11.34% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.19% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
5.11% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.20% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.29% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.93% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
1.83% |