2012 Q4/UK Police Forces



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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 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)
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.02 371.46
British Transport Po​lice 0.02 6872.82
Dumfries and Gallowa​y 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 Poli​ce 0.04 834.79
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.04 3622.77
Durham Constabulary 0.04 4669.26
Dorset Police 0.04 908.19
City of London Polic​e 0.05 4357.41
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.05 895.08
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.05 461.68
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.05 642.23
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.05 710.55
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.06 1887.61
Fife Constabulary 0.06 196.97
South Wales Police 0.06 798.96
Grampian Police 0.06 67.24
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 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 Co​nstabulary 0.09 214.62
Cleveland Police 0.10 617.43
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.14 2747.21
Staffordshire Police​ 0.14 348.27
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 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 Consta​bulary 0.17 1000.04
Essex Police 0.17 5943.25
Wiltshire Police 0.21 3997.87
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.21 781.90
Northumbria Police 0.22 158.28
Cumbria Police 0.22 891.11
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.23 46.19
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.24 945.34
Humberside Police 0.26 2502.88
Northern Constabular​y 0.26 778.42
Tayside Police 0.32 872.43
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.33 1417.83
Strathclyde Police 0.34 1310.35
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy 0.37 1366.46
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.37 292.40
Lothian and Borders ​Police 0.39 1564.43
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency 0.44 860.95
Cheshire Police 0.45 3113.38
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.47 959.67
Central Scotland Pol​ice 0.51 1254.58
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.53 2156.87
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.59 1000.26
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.85 412.82
Association of Polic​e Authorities 1.22 951.43
Organisation A AA
Dumfries and Gallowa​y Constabulary100.0092.80
Cleveland Police100.0077.60
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.006.40
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary100.001.60
Tayside Police100.001.60
Serious Organised Cr​ime Agency100.000.80
Association of Polic​e Authorities100.000.00
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.000.00
Fife Constabulary100.000.00
Gwent Police100.000.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​100.000.00
Merseyside Police100.000.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service100.000.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Northamptonshire Pol​ice100.000.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland100.000.00
Scottish Crime and D​rug Enforcement Agen​cy100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Surrey Police100.000.00
Thames Valley Police​100.000.00
Lincolnshire Police99.2012.00
South Wales Police99.200.80
West Yorkshire Polic​e99.200.80
Bedfordshire Police98.4064.80
Lancashire Police98.400.80
Northern Constabular​y98.400.80
Cumbria Police98.400.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary97.604.00
Staffordshire Police​97.600.80
Lothian and Borders ​Police97.600.00
City of London Polic​e96.800.80
Dorset Police96.000.80
Grampian Police96.000.00
North Wales Police95.2072.80
West Mercia Constabu​lary95.200.00
Essex Police94.4058.40
Northumbria Police94.401.60
Warwickshire Police ​Force94.400.00
Wiltshire Police94.400.00
Durham Constabulary92.800.80
Central Scotland Pol​ice92.800.00
British Transport Po​lice92.004.80
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce90.401.60
Strathclyde Police87.203.20
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry87.200.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce84.800.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary82.400.00
Greater Manchester P​olice72.801.60
Hampshire Constabula​ry72.000.00
Cheshire Police67.2054.40
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary65.600.80
West Midlands Police​64.000.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary38.4076.80
Humberside Police24.802.40
Kent Police11.200.00
Sussex Police2.4020.80
Ask The Police2.400.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Cleveland Police
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • North Yorkshire Police
  • South Yorkshire Police
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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

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.

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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%
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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%