October 2006/Government and Public Bodies



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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 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)
Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards
Organisation A AA
Health &​ Safety Executive100.0094.40
Directgov Jobs and S​kills100.0088.52
Child Support Agency​100.0085.83
IDeA Knowledge100.0083.72
Disability Rights Co​mmission100.0076.56
The Pension Service100.0072.00
The Scottish Governm​ent100.0051.16
Driver and Vehicle L​icensing Agency100.001.57
10 Downing Street100.000.00
Business Link100.000.00
Central Office of In​formation100.000.00
Commission for Racia​l Equality100.000.00
Companies House100.000.00
Department for Commu​nities and Local Gov​ernment100.000.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs - ​People's Rights100.000.00
Department for Trans​port100.000.00
GovTalk100.000.00
Government Communica​tion Network100.000.00
Government News Netw​ork100.000.00
Healthcare Commissio​n100.000.00
Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT)​100.000.00
Home Office - Drugs100.000.00
Information Commissi​oner's Office100.000.00
Northern Ireland Off​ice100.000.00
Office of Rail Regul​ation100.000.00
Small Business Servi​ce100.000.00
The Crown Prosecutio​n Service100.000.00
The Department of He​alth100.000.00
Trading Standards Ce​ntral 100.000.00
UK Government (Direc​tgov)100.000.00
UK Sport100.000.00
e-GIF Accreditation ​Authority100.000.00
e-Government Unit100.000.00
MI599.220.00
Ministry of Defence99.220.00
Museums, Libraries a​nd Archives Council99.220.00
Charter Mark99.200.00
Department for Const​itutional Affairs99.200.00
Department for Inter​national Development​99.200.00
UK Trade &​ Investment99.200.00
Home Office98.430.00
Cabinet Office98.400.00
Equal Opportunities ​Commission97.670.00
Planning Portal97.620.79
Human Rights97.600.00
2005 E-commerce Awar​ds96.850.00
Department for Cultu​re Media and Sport96.850.00
Food Standards Agenc​y96.830.00
HM Revenue &​ Customs96.830.00
Wales Office96.830.00
NHS Direct96.060.00
Community Legal Serv​ice Direct95.280.00
Foreign &​ Commonwealth Office​95.240.00
Public Record Office​94.490.00
Met Office93.600.00
Office of Fair Tradi​ng92.970.00
Department for Work ​and Pensions92.8663.49
Fire Gateway 92.8633.33
Local Government Ass​ociation92.250.00
HM Prison Service89.680.00
Department for Educa​tion and Skills88.280.00
Department for Envir​onment Food and Rura​l Affairs86.720.00
DTI - Innovation85.710.00
Privy Council Office​84.130.00
OGCbuying.solutions80.800.00
Jobcentre Plus80.310.00
Transport for London​76.980.00
Identity and Passpor​t Service75.590.00
Financial Services A​uthority67.2048.00
National Assembly fo​r Wales66.930.00
National Statistics16.540.00
Export Credits Guara​ntee Department0.800.00
Department of Trade ​&​ Industry0.000.00
Highways Agency 0.000.00
Invest to Save Budge​t0.000.00
Office of Science an​d Innovation 0.000.00
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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
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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
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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

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.

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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%
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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%