2015 Q2/UK Police Forces



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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 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)
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 Po​lice 0.04 1039.26
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.05 832.41
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.05 2233.26
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.05 1306.30
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.07 4392.38
Merseyside Police 0.07 474.96
Kent Police 0.08 414.71
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary 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 Consta​bulary 0.10 2734.65
Surrey Police 0.11 1672.58
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.13 1028.90
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.13 1019.41
North Wales Police 0.15 1034.91
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.15 1274.89
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.15 1111.35
Durham Constabulary 0.17 1484.54
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.18 369.04
Gwent Police 0.20 292.70
City of London Polic​e 0.21 1683.43
Cumbria Police 0.21 869.50
Lincolnshire Police 0.23 760.50
National Crime Agenc​y 0.31 1188.85
Ask The Police 0.34 179.39
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 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 F​orce 0.46 870.30
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.50 7.83
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.52 318.67
Police Scotland 0.94 1896.46
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 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 Poli​ce 1.78 1373.11
Organisation A AA
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.0088.00
Thames Valley Police​100.0088.00
Bedfordshire Police100.0051.20
Police Scotland100.0010.40
Humberside Police100.008.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary100.000.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service100.000.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.000.00
South Wales Police100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Surrey Police100.000.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force100.000.00
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary99.201.60
Gwent Police99.200.80
City of London Polic​e99.200.00
Cumbria Police99.200.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary99.200.00
Lincolnshire Police99.200.00
North Wales Police99.200.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland99.200.00
Essex Police98.4040.80
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce98.400.00
Wiltshire Police97.600.00
Staffordshire Police​96.8044.00
Dorset Police96.000.80
West Midlands Police​94.401.60
West Yorkshire Polic​e93.600.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary91.200.00
Durham Constabulary89.601.60
Cleveland Police88.000.00
National Crime Agenc​y84.0053.60
Northumbria Police83.200.00
Merseyside Police80.801.60
Lancashire Police80.800.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry80.008.00
Cheshire Police71.202.40
Ask The Police48.800.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary44.000.80
British Transport Po​lice44.000.00
Kent Police18.400.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary14.404.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​6.400.00
Greater Manchester P​olice0.800.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce0.000.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
Sussex Police0.000.00
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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
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Devon & Cornwall Constabulary
  • Northamptonshire Police
  • West Mercia Constabulary
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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.

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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%
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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%