October 2006/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
91.08%
- Poorest code quality:
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (http://www.mla.gov.uk/) - 21,483 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Department for Work and Pensions (http://www.dwp.gov.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 94.40 |
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 88.52 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 85.83 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 83.72 |
| Disability Rights Commission | 100.00 | 76.56 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 72.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 100.00 | 51.16 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 1.57 |
| 10 Downing Street | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Commission for Racial Equality | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government Communication Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Rail Regulation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Small Business Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| e-Government Unit | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| MI5 | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Department for International Development | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Home Office | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Planning Portal | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Met Office | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 92.86 | 63.49 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.86 | 33.33 |
| Local Government Association | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Department for Education and Skills | 88.28 | 0.00 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 86.72 | 0.00 |
| DTI - Innovation | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 84.13 | 0.00 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 75.59 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 67.20 | 48.00 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| National Statistics | 16.54 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Department of Trade & Industry | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights
- Disability Rights Commission
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Department of Trade & Industry
- Office of Science and Innovation
- Highways Agency
- Invest to Save Budget
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
21.1% 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/url/badquery None |
54.26% |
| file/url/offtop None |
20.52% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.07% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
3.05% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
2.31% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.22% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
1.78% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.09% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.98% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
0.97% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
24.44% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.29% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
18.35% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
14.87% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.59% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
4.36% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.87% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.79% |
| file/html/unnecessaryvalue A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value |
1.59% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.46% |