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Accountability for compliance, web estate wide.

UK Central Government October 2006

Error free sites

  • Directgov Jobs and Skills
  • Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights
  • Disability Rights Commission

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Department of Trade & Industry
  • Office of Science and Innovation
  • Highways Agency
  • Invest to Save Budget

Excluded from index

  • No sites were excluded from this index

Index facts

Sites tested: 10 Oct 2006
Total URLs tested: 40,968
Total tests run: 13,334,464
Total number of PDF's: 764
URLs failing functional tests: 6.10
Pages failing code standards: 60.63
Pages missing a title: 0.82
Pages failing accessibility level A: 11.45
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 11.45
Poorest code quality: Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (http://www.mla.gov.uk/) - 21,483 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Central Office of Information (http://www.coi.gov.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.

21.1% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 54.26%
file/url/offtop 20.52%
url/fetch/notfound 9.07%
url/fetch/noaddr 3.05%
file/html/badmeta 2.31%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 2.22%
file/html/longmeta 1.78%
file/url/badpath 1.09%
file/html/notitle 0.98%
file/html/longtitle 0.97%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 24.44%
file/html/unknownentity 21.29%
file/html/tagnotallowed 18.35%
file/html/badattr 14.87%
file/html/badvalue 6.59%
file/html/missingclose 4.36%
file/html/closingunopened 2.87%
file/html/repeatedattr 2.79%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue 1.59%
file/html/unknowntag 1.46%