2012 Q1/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Jan 2012
- Total URLs tested:
98,388
- Total tests run:
32,090,552
- Total number of PDF's:
4,402
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.30%
- Pages failing code standards:
75.34%
- Pages missing a title:
1.80%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
15.68%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.97%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 15,048 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 | 1016.88 |
| British Transport Police | 0.01 | 6296.57 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.02 | 276.97 |
| Surrey Police | 0.02 | 3599.98 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.02 | 767.49 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.02 | 616.57 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 346.04 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.03 | 836.71 |
| Grampian Police | 0.04 | 3196.46 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 399.96 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.04 | 1886.01 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.04 | 171.60 |
| North Wales Police | 0.04 | 1113.92 |
| Kent Police | 0.04 | 418.80 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.04 | 331.04 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.05 | 182.26 |
| South Wales Police | 0.05 | 801.78 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.06 | 2180.90 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1442.06 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1541.63 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.07 | 323.16 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.07 | 870.18 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.08 | 569.12 |
| Dorset Police | 0.08 | 854.64 |
| Essex Police | 0.10 | 3101.31 |
| City of London Police | 0.10 | 2397.96 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.10 | 1053.63 |
| Gwent Police | 0.11 | 2966.52 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.11 | 182.04 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.12 | 754.45 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.14 | 739.23 |
| Sussex Police | 0.14 | 803.94 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.14 | 764.12 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.14 | 958.04 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.14 | 676.61 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.14 | 165.13 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.14 | 883.52 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.14 | 919.03 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.16 | 454.33 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.17 | 206.67 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.17 | 2403.86 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.17 | 2153.66 |
| Humberside Police | 0.17 | 1791.58 |
| Ask The Police | 0.23 | 424.44 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.24 | 468.95 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.26 | 361.09 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.27 | 65.92 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.32 | 1251.87 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.32 | 696.40 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.33 | 607.12 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.34 | 911.30 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.36 | 173.83 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.39 | 1344.16 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.49 | 1233.94 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.52 | 388.57 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.56 | 1994.69 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.58 | 1011.31 |
| Tayside Police | 0.64 | 409.24 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 8.83 | 195.21 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 89.60 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 73.60 |
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 72.80 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| City of London 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 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 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 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 99.20 | 27.20 |
| Thames Valley Police | 99.20 | 4.00 |
| Tayside Police | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| Fife Constabulary | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 98.40 | 13.60 |
| Dorset Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 96.80 | 73.60 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 95.20 | 54.40 |
| British Transport Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 93.60 | 3.20 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 91.20 | 0.80 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 88.80 | 1.60 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 80.00 | 34.40 |
| West Midlands Police | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 44.80 | 0.80 |
| Humberside Police | 36.80 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 31.20 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Ask The Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.80 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Norfolk Constabulary
- Suffolk Constabulary
- Tayside Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
30.7% 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/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
41.42% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
31.78% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
14.38% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
5.08% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
4.43% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
1.94% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.52% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.18% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.12% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.06% |
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 |
30.69% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
30.40% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.56% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
6.33% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
5.65% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
5.59% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.07% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.44% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
1.73% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.71% |