2012 Q3/UK Police Forces
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
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 Constabulary | 0.03 | 1014.40 |
| British Transport Police | 0.03 | 6890.81 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 473.10 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.03 | 1039.71 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.03 | 154.51 |
| Dorset Police | 0.04 | 934.96 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 180.09 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.04 | 3723.16 |
| Grampian Police | 0.04 | 69.78 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.04 | 1935.35 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.04 | 3234.84 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.04 | 1928.76 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.05 | 551.76 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1856.70 |
| City of London Police | 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 Constabulary | 0.07 | 305.84 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.07 | 612.67 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.08 | 668.53 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.09 | 293.57 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.09 | 893.27 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.10 | 689.79 |
| Kent Police | 0.10 | 458.07 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.11 | 1215.12 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.11 | 904.24 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 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 Police | 0.16 | 2630.13 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.16 | 671.60 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.16 | 177.27 |
| Gwent Police | 0.17 | 2041.30 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.18 | 888.54 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.21 | 332.78 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.22 | 160.63 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.23 | 774.42 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.24 | 874.96 |
| Humberside Police | 0.25 | 2162.46 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.27 | 1371.37 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.28 | 480.99 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.28 | 1801.95 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.29 | 1019.32 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.30 | 860.65 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.31 | 2942.71 |
| Tayside Police | 0.31 | 1041.71 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.31 | 1636.43 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.32 | 1627.67 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.36 | 895.10 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.40 | 2207.82 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.63 | 1185.65 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.68 | 985.37 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.69 | 316.66 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 96.80 |
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 75.20 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 99.20 | 56.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 98.40 | 4.80 |
| Lancashire Police | 98.40 | 4.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| Staffordshire Police | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| South Wales Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| City of London Police | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 95.20 | 72.80 |
| Northumbria Police | 95.20 | 2.40 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 92.80 | 60.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.80 | 0.80 |
| Central Scotland Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 91.20 | 1.60 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 91.20 | 0.80 |
| Surrey Police | 89.60 | 0.80 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Strathclyde Police | 81.60 | 3.20 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 73.60 | 1.60 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 71.20 | 0.80 |
| Cheshire Police | 70.40 | 57.60 |
| Sussex Police | 70.40 | 23.20 |
| West Midlands Police | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 44.80 | 74.40 |
| Kent Police | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 8.80 | 2.40 |
| Ask The Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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.
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% |
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% |