2012 Q3/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    04 Jul 2012

  • Total URLs tested:

    103,672

  • Total tests run:

    33,842,640

  • Total number of PDF's:

    5,740

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.57%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    73.48%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.67%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    11.58%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    90.40%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (http://www.sdea.police.uk/) - 14,285 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Suffolk Constabulary (http://www.suffolk.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)
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.02 365.77
Surrey Police 0.02 4782.64
North Wales Police 0.03 3259.74
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.03 1014.40
British Transport Po​lice 0.03 6890.81
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.03 473.10
West Midlands Police​ 0.03 1039.71
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.03 154.51
Dorset Police 0.04 934.96
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary 0.04 180.09
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.04 3723.16
Grampian Police 0.04 69.78
Bedfordshire Police 0.04 1935.35
Durham Constabulary 0.04 3234.84
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.04 1928.76
Cleveland Police 0.05 551.76
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.06 1856.70
City of London Polic​e 0.06 2941.75
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.06 1173.21
South Wales Police 0.06 743.34
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.06 426.56
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.07 305.84
Merseyside Police 0.07 612.67
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.08 668.53
Fife Constabulary 0.09 293.57
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.09 893.27
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.10 689.79
Kent Police 0.10 458.07
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary 0.11 1215.12
Lancashire Police 0.11 904.24
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.12 2485.45
Essex Police 0.14 6115.43
Sussex Police 0.14 1363.62
Thames Valley Police​ 0.15 1532.22
Ask The Police 0.15 255.31
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.16 2630.13
Lincolnshire Police 0.16 671.60
Northumbria Police 0.16 177.27
Gwent Police 0.17 2041.30
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.18 888.54
Staffordshire Police​ 0.21 332.78
Wiltshire Police 0.22 160.63
Northern Constabular​y 0.23 774.42
Cumbria Police 0.24 874.96
Humberside Police 0.25 2162.46
Central Scotland Pol​ice 0.27 1371.37
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.28 480.99
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.28 1801.95
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.29 1019.32
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.30 860.65
Lothian and Borders ​Police 0.31 2942.71
Tayside Police 0.31 1041.71
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency 0.31 1636.43
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy 0.32 1627.67
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.36 895.10
Cheshire Police 0.40 2207.82
Strathclyde Police 0.63 1185.65
Association of Polic​e Authorities 0.68 985.37
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.69 316.66
Organisation A AA
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.0096.80
Gwent Police100.0075.20
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.007.20
Thames Valley Police​100.004.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary100.001.60
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.001.60
Tayside Police100.001.60
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland100.000.80
Association of Polic​e Authorities100.000.00
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.000.00
Cleveland Police100.000.00
Fife Constabulary100.000.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​100.000.00
Merseyside Police100.000.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service100.000.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Bedfordshire Police99.2056.00
Cumbria Police99.200.80
Lincolnshire Police99.200.80
West Yorkshire Polic​e99.200.80
South Yorkshire Poli​ce99.200.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary98.404.80
Lancashire Police98.404.00
Northern Constabular​y98.401.60
Staffordshire Police​98.400.80
South Wales Police97.600.80
City of London Polic​e96.800.80
Warwickshire Police ​Force96.800.00
Dorset Police96.000.00
Grampian Police96.000.00
North Wales Police95.2072.80
Northumbria Police95.202.40
Lothian and Borders ​Police95.200.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary95.200.00
Wiltshire Police94.400.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce93.600.00
Essex Police92.8060.00
Durham Constabulary92.800.80
Central Scotland Pol​ice92.800.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary91.201.60
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce91.200.80
Surrey Police89.600.80
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry86.400.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce85.600.00
British Transport Po​lice84.800.00
Strathclyde Police81.603.20
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary73.601.60
Hampshire Constabula​ry72.000.00
Greater Manchester P​olice71.200.80
Cheshire Police70.4057.60
Sussex Police70.4023.20
West Midlands Police​65.600.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary44.8074.40
Kent Police12.000.00
Humberside Police8.802.40
Ask The Police2.400.00
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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

35.0% 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.

file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
35.60%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
33.27%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
13.53%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
5.52%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
4.35%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
4.14%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.46%
file/image/invalid
Image file is corrupt
0.37%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.29%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.16%
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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
29.62%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
26.10%
file/image/size
Image file size or dimensions do not match
9.86%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
6.98%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
5.88%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
5.06%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
4.82%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.22%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
2.19%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
1.99%