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UK Local Government - March 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
97.3% pages passed functional tests
46.9% pages passed code standards
99.5% pages have a title
95.0% pages passed accessibility (level A)
24.8% pages passed accessibility (level AA)
First
Slough (http://www.slough.gov.uk/)
Last
Fermanagh (http://www.fermanagh.gov.uk/)
Up 353
Derbyshire Dales (http://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/)
Down 196
Forest Heath (http://www.forest-heath.gov.uk/)
Organisation movements:
Gained
204
Fell
246
Same
10
New
0
  • 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/) - 43,263 failures
  • Overall the site with the fastest response time was South Norfolk (http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/)
  • 7 sites failed accessibility A & AA on every page
Modem Passing: 76 Failing: 384
ADSL Passing: 383 Failing: 384
Metadata Passing: 365 Failing: 95
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.

29.7% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests