2011 Q3/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
05 Jul 2011
- Total URLs tested:
87,251
- Total tests run:
28,468,193
- Total number of PDF's:
4,293
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.12%
- Pages failing code standards:
76.36%
- Pages missing a title:
1.83%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
16.92%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.52%
- Poorest code quality:
Lincolnshire Police (http://www.lincs.police.uk/) - 17,431 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.01 | 991.36 |
| Surrey Police | 0.02 | 3815.79 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.02 | 954.79 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.02 | 617.03 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.03 | 4282.31 |
| North Wales Police | 0.03 | 1533.56 |
| Grampian Police | 0.03 | 2077.25 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.03 | 1980.98 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 386.93 |
| British Transport Police | 0.04 | 5823.42 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.04 | 1780.74 |
| Gwent Police | 0.04 | 1131.30 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.04 | 934.86 |
| Dorset Police | 0.04 | 736.74 |
| South Wales Police | 0.05 | 798.43 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1717.31 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.06 | 267.62 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.06 | 734.68 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.06 | 1598.54 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.07 | 2262.27 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.08 | 469.73 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.08 | 679.68 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.08 | 1151.60 |
| City of London Police | 0.09 | 4262.79 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.09 | 809.04 |
| Kent Police | 0.09 | 249.53 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.10 | 869.33 |
| Essex Police | 0.11 | 3622.26 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.11 | 176.03 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.11 | 436.09 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.13 | 72.89 |
| Sussex Police | 0.13 | 654.04 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.14 | 962.39 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.14 | 1091.21 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.14 | 271.88 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.15 | 534.56 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.16 | 2439.80 |
| Humberside Police | 0.18 | 1686.45 |
| Ask The Police | 0.18 | 38.88 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.19 | 526.54 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.21 | 135.45 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.25 | 1824.97 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.26 | 1525.73 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.28 | 2701.54 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.28 | 499.80 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.29 | 190.39 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.32 | 941.24 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.32 | 1084.39 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.33 | 749.91 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.33 | 252.35 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.45 | 1194.46 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.45 | 2705.19 |
| Tayside Police | 0.45 | 683.19 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.47 | 1446.01 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.52 | 377.22 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.71 | 909.62 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.80 | 583.45 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.81 | 317.10 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 1.11 | 560.34 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 91.20 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 71.20 |
| Grampian Police | 100.00 | 19.20 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire 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 |
| City of London Police | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 98.40 | 46.40 |
| Cumbria Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 96.00 | 76.80 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 94.40 | 2.40 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 90.40 | 0.80 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 84.00 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 80.80 | 39.20 |
| British Transport Police | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 64.80 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 62.40 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 41.60 | 36.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Ask The Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Ask The Police
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Ask The Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
32.3% 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 |
35.76% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
16.69% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
13.78% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
12.31% |
| url/fetch/emptylocation Redirect code received but empty Location header given |
8.45% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
5.66% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
3.75% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
2.94% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.29% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.18% |
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 |
29.21% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
26.38% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
10.01% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
9.98% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.69% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
5.47% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.91% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.09% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.49% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
1.29% |