2015 Q2/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
07 Apr 2015
- Total URLs tested:
109,117
- Total tests run:
35,543,417
- Total number of PDF's:
3,092
- URLs failing functional tests:
1.96%
- Pages failing code standards:
74.38%
- Pages missing a title:
0.15%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
23.52%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.34%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 65,543 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Cleveland Police (http://www.cleveland.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Police | 0.02 | 1682.03 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 340.35 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.04 | 401.37 |
| Dorset Police | 0.04 | 751.48 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.04 | 1612.27 |
| Essex Police | 0.04 | 2071.83 |
| British Transport Police | 0.04 | 1039.26 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.05 | 832.41 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.05 | 2233.26 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.05 | 1306.30 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.07 | 4392.38 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.07 | 474.96 |
| Kent Police | 0.08 | 414.71 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.09 | 1102.51 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.09 | 1399.78 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.09 | 96.87 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.09 | 1008.54 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.10 | 542.25 |
| Sussex Police | 0.10 | 786.39 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.10 | 2734.65 |
| Surrey Police | 0.11 | 1672.58 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.13 | 1028.90 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.13 | 1019.41 |
| North Wales Police | 0.15 | 1034.91 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.15 | 1274.89 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.15 | 1111.35 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.17 | 1484.54 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.18 | 369.04 |
| Gwent Police | 0.20 | 292.70 |
| City of London Police | 0.21 | 1683.43 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.21 | 869.50 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.23 | 760.50 |
| National Crime Agency | 0.31 | 1188.85 |
| Ask The Police | 0.34 | 179.39 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.37 | 1311.83 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.38 | 837.74 |
| Humberside Police | 0.38 | 658.20 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.44 | 992.32 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.46 | 870.30 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.50 | 7.83 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.52 | 318.67 |
| Police Scotland | 0.94 | 1896.46 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.97 | 1638.92 |
| Cheshire Police | 1.04 | 2498.10 |
| Wiltshire Police | 1.20 | 571.14 |
| South Wales Police | 1.44 | 571.44 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 1.78 | 1373.11 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 88.00 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 88.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 100.00 | 51.20 |
| Police Scotland | 100.00 | 10.40 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| Gwent Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| City of London Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 98.40 | 40.80 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 96.80 | 44.00 |
| Dorset Police | 96.00 | 0.80 |
| West Midlands Police | 94.40 | 1.60 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 89.60 | 1.60 |
| Cleveland Police | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| National Crime Agency | 84.00 | 53.60 |
| Northumbria Police | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 80.80 | 1.60 |
| Lancashire Police | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 80.00 | 8.00 |
| Cheshire Police | 71.20 | 2.40 |
| Ask The Police | 48.80 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 44.00 | 0.80 |
| British Transport Police | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 14.40 | 4.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Dyfed-Powys Police Force
- North Yorkshire Police
- South Yorkshire Police
- Sussex Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Devon & Cornwall Constabulary
- Northamptonshire Police
- West Mercia Constabulary
PDF testing
49.8% 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 |
37.90% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
34.96% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
10.75% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
6.50% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
4.75% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.81% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.04% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.71% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
0.59% |
| file/image/invalid Image file is corrupt |
0.45% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
20.74% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.39% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.41% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
9.58% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
8.99% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
8.57% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
3.84% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.19% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.58% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
2.10% |