2011 Q4/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    03 Oct 2011

  • Total URLs tested:

    92,365

  • Total tests run:

    30,183,465

  • Total number of PDF's:

    6,340

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.32%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    74.34%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.89%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    15.44%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    90.61%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 16,995 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.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)
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.02 1076.82
Surrey Police 0.02 3088.68
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.03 341.99
North Wales Police 0.03 1076.23
Grampian Police 0.03 2020.56
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.04 641.31
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.04 1875.11
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.04 486.67
British Transport Po​lice 0.04 5824.92
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.04 216.86
Durham Constabulary 0.05 2076.00
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary 0.05 209.09
Dorset Police 0.05 708.46
West Midlands Police​ 0.05 642.05
Gwent Police 0.05 1954.94
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.05 2058.77
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.06 1241.26
City of London Polic​e 0.06 3643.16
South Wales Police 0.06 750.15
Bedfordshire Police 0.06 1088.38
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.07 1444.55
Kent Police 0.07 161.41
Sussex Police 0.08 818.82
Cleveland Police 0.08 539.36
Strathclyde Police 0.10 307.36
Essex Police 0.11 1819.25
Cumbria Police 0.12 1002.20
Staffordshire Police​ 0.13 322.99
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.14 441.52
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.14 750.06
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.16 2076.67
Lincolnshire Police 0.17 611.24
Lancashire Police 0.17 916.12
Humberside Police 0.18 1347.32
Ask The Police 0.18 249.67
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.19 409.08
Cheshire Police 0.19 1124.43
Lothian and Borders ​Police 0.20 1720.93
Central Scotland Pol​ice 0.22 76.72
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.23 889.15
Northumbria Police 0.23 134.73
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency 0.24 1439.71
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary 0.24 1012.82
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.27 156.24
Wiltshire Police 0.28 210.71
Merseyside Police 0.31 280.29
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.32 494.80
Thames Valley Police​ 0.33 631.59
Association of Polic​e Authorities 0.39 1007.32
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.39 717.52
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.43 1025.38
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.44 1376.23
Fife Constabulary 0.45 130.26
Northern Constabular​y 0.58 491.29
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.71 829.43
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.74 398.40
Tayside Police 0.74 319.25
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy 1.58 764.98
Organisation A AA
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.0097.60
Gwent Police100.0089.60
Grampian Police100.0016.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.007.20
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.006.40
City of London Polic​e100.004.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland100.004.00
Tayside Police100.001.60
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary100.000.80
Association of Polic​e Authorities100.000.00
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.000.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce100.000.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​100.000.00
Lincolnshire Police100.000.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
South Wales Police100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary99.2076.00
Cleveland Police99.2063.20
Bedfordshire Police99.2015.20
Thames Valley Police​99.204.00
Lancashire Police99.200.00
Northern Constabular​y99.200.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce99.200.00
Dorset Police98.400.00
Lothian and Borders ​Police98.400.00
Fife Constabulary97.600.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service97.600.00
Northumbria Police97.600.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce97.600.00
North Wales Police96.8074.40
Cumbria Police96.000.00
Staffordshire Police​96.000.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce94.400.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force94.400.00
Cheshire Police93.6075.20
Wiltshire Police92.800.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary92.000.00
Durham Constabulary90.400.80
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary88.800.00
Essex Police88.000.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry85.600.00
West Midlands Police​82.400.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary78.400.00
British Transport Po​lice76.800.00
Surrey Police74.400.00
Kent Police68.000.00
Strathclyde Police64.004.00
Greater Manchester P​olice56.800.00
Humberside Police53.600.00
Merseyside Police35.200.80
Central Scotland Pol​ice19.200.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e8.800.00
Ask The Police2.400.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary0.800.00
Sussex Police0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Cheshire Police
  • Cleveland Police
  • Norfolk Constabulary
  • Tayside Police
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Sussex Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Hampshire Constabulary
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PDF testing

34.1% 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
53.06%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
20.86%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
8.17%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
7.33%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
7.00%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
2.89%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.23%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.23%
url/fetch/badport
Server port in URL must be numerical
0.19%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
0.05%
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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
31.36%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
27.56%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
7.67%
file/url/badquery
Illegal character in URL query section
6.40%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
6.14%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
5.98%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.91%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.12%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
1.69%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.40%