October 2006/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
26 Oct 2006
- Total URLs tested:
27,157
- Total tests run:
8,847,943
- Total number of PDF's:
843
- URLs failing functional tests:
8.24%
- Pages failing code standards:
61.39%
- Pages missing a title:
1.01%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
23.68%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.49%
- Poorest code quality:
West Yorkshire Police (http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/) - 11,175 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Cumbria Police (http://www.cumbria.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Police | 100.00 | 92.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 100.00 | 81.60 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 73.02 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 53.33 |
| Lancashire Police | 100.00 | 44.88 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 100.00 | 28.35 |
| Durham Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Non-Emergency Crime | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Information Technology Organisation | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 99.22 | 35.16 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Gwent Police | 98.44 | 92.97 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 97.62 | 0.79 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Grampian Police | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| City of London Police | 92.97 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| West Midlands Police | 90.48 | 4.76 |
| North Wales Police | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 86.40 | 1.60 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 85.71 | 0.00 |
| Northern Constabulary | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 76.74 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 76.19 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 73.44 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 50.00 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 34.92 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 30.95 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 15.15 | 13.64 |
| Strathclyde Police | 12.40 | 0.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 10.08 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 2.91 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 1.57 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Cheshire Police
- Derbyshire Constabulary
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Central Scotland Police
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
15.4% 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/offtop None |
46.49% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
14.51% |
| file/url/badpath None |
9.51% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.30% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
4.75% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.05% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
2.70% |
| file/url/badquery None |
1.62% |
| file/html/notitle None |
1.62% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
1.14% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
19.44% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
19.35% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
17.54% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
11.99% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
9.07% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
7.78% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
6.61% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
5.95% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.81% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
0.58% |