2011 Q2/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    27 Apr 2011

  • Total URLs tested:

    87,542

  • Total tests run:

    28,622,802

  • Total number of PDF's:

    6,602

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.64%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    76.86%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.17%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    17.96%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    93.58%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Lincolnshire Police (http://www.lincs.police.uk/) - 17,671 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Leicestershire Constabulary (http://www.leics.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)
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.01 897.05
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.01 952.66
Surrey Police 0.01 2012.21
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.01 1339.07
Lothian and Borders ​Police 0.02 4812.15
North Wales Police 0.02 574.67
Grampian Police 0.03 2489.43
Gwent Police 0.03 2024.49
British Transport Po​lice 0.03 5625.09
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary 0.04 309.45
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.04 2158.21
Durham Constabulary 0.04 1968.85
South Wales Police 0.04 907.25
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.05 1048.74
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.05 2139.00
Bedfordshire Police 0.05 1312.71
Dorset Police 0.05 736.93
West Midlands Police​ 0.06 664.74
Fife Constabulary 0.06 221.00
Lancashire Police 0.07 885.90
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.07 485.71
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.07 1359.42
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.09 5841.98
Strathclyde Police 0.09 644.41
Kent Police 0.09 202.73
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.10 422.29
Essex Police 0.11 3875.98
Cleveland Police 0.11 721.76
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.11 977.16
Staffordshire Police​ 0.11 436.21
City of London Polic​e 0.12 2279.52
Lincolnshire Police 0.12 472.99
Sussex Police 0.13 971.37
Central Scotland Pol​ice 0.14 74.86
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.14 410.77
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.14 564.92
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary 0.15 768.86
Ask The Police 0.15 62.68
Northumbria Police 0.16 183.05
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.19 171.76
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.19 2619.26
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.19 2516.57
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.20 588.14
Cumbria Police 0.20 1020.97
Humberside Police 0.25 1983.33
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.28 1143.52
Northern Constabular​y 0.30 763.54
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.34 1204.64
Cheshire Police 0.34 715.30
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency 0.38 1630.83
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy 0.39 2745.74
Thames Valley Police​ 0.39 516.25
Association of Polic​e Authorities 0.39 981.52
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.43 1033.11
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.48 336.89
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.63 419.25
Merseyside Police 0.68 308.11
Tayside Police 0.74 256.75
Wiltshire Police 0.79 1613.36
Organisation A AA
Gwent Police100.0092.80
Leicestershire Const​abulary100.0082.40
Grampian Police100.0019.20
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.0013.60
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland100.004.00
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.004.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.001.60
Association of Polic​e Authorities100.000.00
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.000.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.000.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce100.000.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary100.000.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​100.000.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police100.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice100.000.00
Northern Constabular​y100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
South Wales Police100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Tayside Police100.000.00
Thames Valley Police​100.000.00
Cumbria Police99.200.00
Lancashire Police99.200.00
Staffordshire Police​99.200.00
Wiltshire Police99.200.00
Cleveland Police98.4091.20
City of London Polic​e98.403.20
Dorset Police98.400.00
Fife Constabulary98.400.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce98.400.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force98.400.00
Northumbria Police97.600.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry96.800.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce96.800.00
West Midlands Police​96.000.00
Essex Police95.200.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce95.200.00
Cheshire Police94.4017.60
Bedfordshire Police94.400.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service94.400.00
Durham Constabulary92.801.60
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary89.600.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary88.000.00
Strathclyde Police85.600.80
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry84.801.60
British Transport Po​lice81.600.00
Surrey Police74.400.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary73.600.00
Kent Police72.000.00
Greater Manchester P​olice58.400.00
Merseyside Police40.0042.40
Humberside Police22.400.00
Central Scotland Pol​ice19.200.00
North Wales Police8.800.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e8.000.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary0.800.00
Ask The Police0.000.00
Lincolnshire Police0.000.00
Sussex Police0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Ask The Police
  • Cleveland Police
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Ask The Police
  • Lincolnshire Police
  • Sussex 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

33.4% 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.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
41.62%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
20.83%
url/fetch/emptylocation
Redirect code received but empty Location header given
9.77%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
8.77%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
6.87%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
3.93%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
2.64%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
2.55%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
2.42%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.26%
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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
29.80%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
23.85%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
10.97%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
10.84%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
8.24%
file/url/badquery
Illegal character in URL query section
5.25%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
2.87%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.04%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
1.58%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
1.08%