2012 Q4/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
02 Oct 2012
- Total URLs tested:
103,432
- Total tests run:
33,736,950
- Total number of PDF's:
4,675
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.10%
- Pages failing code standards:
72.12%
- Pages missing a title:
1.45%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
15.85%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
90.32%
- Poorest code quality:
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (http://www.sdea.police.uk/) - 14,494 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 | 371.46 |
| British Transport Police | 0.02 | 6872.82 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.03 | 273.83 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.03 | 1461.50 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 382.86 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.04 | 2102.92 |
| North Wales Police | 0.04 | 2027.74 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.04 | 834.79 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.04 | 3622.77 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.04 | 4669.26 |
| Dorset Police | 0.04 | 908.19 |
| City of London Police | 0.05 | 4357.41 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.05 | 895.08 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.05 | 461.68 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.05 | 642.23 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.05 | 710.55 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1887.61 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.06 | 196.97 |
| South Wales Police | 0.06 | 798.96 |
| Grampian Police | 0.06 | 67.24 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.06 | 686.25 |
| Sussex Police | 0.07 | 801.25 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.07 | 886.23 |
| Kent Police | 0.08 | 476.15 |
| Surrey Police | 0.08 | 3198.47 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.09 | 214.62 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.10 | 617.43 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.14 | 2747.21 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.14 | 348.27 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.14 | 2514.91 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.15 | 878.85 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.16 | 628.92 |
| Gwent Police | 0.16 | 406.95 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.16 | 1532.10 |
| Ask The Police | 0.17 | 284.02 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.17 | 1000.04 |
| Essex Police | 0.17 | 5943.25 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.21 | 3997.87 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.21 | 781.90 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.22 | 158.28 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.22 | 891.11 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.23 | 46.19 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.24 | 945.34 |
| Humberside Police | 0.26 | 2502.88 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.26 | 778.42 |
| Tayside Police | 0.32 | 872.43 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.33 | 1417.83 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.34 | 1310.35 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.37 | 1366.46 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.37 | 292.40 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.39 | 1564.43 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.44 | 860.95 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.45 | 3113.38 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.47 | 959.67 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.51 | 1254.58 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.53 | 2156.87 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.59 | 1000.26 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.85 | 412.82 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 1.22 | 951.43 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 92.80 |
| Cleveland Police | 100.00 | 77.60 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 6.40 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gwent Police | 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 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 12.00 |
| South Wales Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 98.40 | 64.80 |
| Lancashire Police | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Northern Constabulary | 98.40 | 0.80 |
| Cumbria Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 97.60 | 4.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| City of London Police | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| Dorset Police | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| Grampian Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 95.20 | 72.80 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 94.40 | 58.40 |
| Northumbria Police | 94.40 | 1.60 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 92.80 | 0.80 |
| Central Scotland Police | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 92.00 | 4.80 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 90.40 | 1.60 |
| Strathclyde Police | 87.20 | 3.20 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 72.80 | 1.60 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 67.20 | 54.40 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 65.60 | 0.80 |
| West Midlands Police | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 38.40 | 76.80 |
| Humberside Police | 24.80 | 2.40 |
| Kent Police | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 2.40 | 20.80 |
| Ask The Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cleveland Police
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- North Yorkshire Police
- South Yorkshire Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
33.0% 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 |
40.87% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
31.02% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
14.79% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
4.97% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
3.22% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
2.05% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
1.90% |
| file/image/invalid Image file is corrupt |
0.42% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
0.30% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.21% |
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 |
30.38% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
24.90% |
| file/image/size Image file size or dimensions do not match |
9.57% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
7.87% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
6.53% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
4.82% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
4.59% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
2.41% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
2.21% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.97% |