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UK Local Government - February 2009

Sitemorse regularly conducts surveys of public and corporate organisations. We also offer a confidential internal 'company wide' website testing and benchmarking service - allowing you to review the position of all the sites in your organisation, plus providing the ability for you to look at web standards delivery along with prioritise actions for the key sites.

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How Sitemorse audits are scored
97.2% pages passed functional tests
46.0% pages passed code standards
99.6% pages have a title
95.1% pages passed accessibility (level A)
24.1% pages passed accessibility (level AA)
First
North Down (http://www.northdown.gov.uk/)
Last
East Staffordshire (http://www.eaststaffsbc.gov.uk/)
Up 236
Rotherham (http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/)
Down 238
Pendle (http://www.pendle.gov.uk/)
Organisation movements:
Gained
237
Fell
214
Same
7
New
2
  • Website with most functional failings was West Sussex (http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/)
  • The poorest code quality was at Guildford (http://www.guildford.gov.uk/) - 43,324 failures
  • Overall the site with the fastest response time was Barking & Dagenham (http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/)
  • 7 sites failed accessibility A & AA on every page
Modem Passing: 84 Failing: 376
ADSL Passing: 387 Failing: 376
Metadata Passing: 364 Failing: 96
Testing front page availability
PDF Testing Services - Overview

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.

28.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests