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UK Central Government Qtr 2 2012

Error free sites

  • The Adjudicator's Office
  • Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
  • Driving Standards Agency
  • Independent Living Fund (ILF)
  • Office of the Oversight Commissioner
  • Plant for Wildlife (Countryside Council for Wales)

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Advisory Panel on Country Information
  • Office of Surveillance Commissioners
  • The Adjudicator's Office
  • Food and Environment Research Agency
  • Firebuy
  • Get Safe Online
  • Money Advice Service
  • Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
  • Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission
  • Northern Ireland Police Fund
  • Olympic Lottery Distributor
  • Office of the Oversight Commissioner
  • Security Industry Authority
  • Standards Board for England

Excluded from index

  • Civil Service Appeal Board
  • Coal Authority
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Defence Analytical Services Agency
  • Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
  • National School of Government (NSG)

Index facts

Sites tested: 22 Apr 2012
Total URLs tested: 588,026
Total tests run: 192,191,376
Total number of PDF's: 41,651
URLs failing functional tests: 4.29
Pages failing code standards: 76.75
Pages missing a title: 1.88
Pages failing accessibility level A: 16.08
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 16.08
Poorest code quality: Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (http://www.ecitb.org.uk/) - 59,008 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (http://www.comare.org.uk/)

PDF testing

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.

46.1% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/notfound 41.23%
url/fetch/badcookie 13.55%
url/fetch/accessdenied 10.34%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 9.33%
url/fetch/noaddr 7.78%
file/image/badtype 7.21%
url/fetch/redirectloop 4.14%
url/fetch/timeout 3.45%
file/image/invalid 0.88%
url/fetch/badscheme 0.83%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/missingclose 17.83%
file/html/tagnotallowed 16.93%
file/html/badentity 15.11%
file/html/unknownentity 15.11%
file/html/badattr 9.58%
file/html/badvalue 8.80%
file/html/unknowntag 3.22%
url/fetch/moved 2.40%
file/image/size 2.20%
file/html/closingunopened 2.18%