2015 Q3/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    04 Jul 2015

  • Total URLs tested:

    105,570

  • Total tests run:

    34,384,714

  • Total number of PDF's:

    2,864

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.30%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    75.18%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.22%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    26.15%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    91.85%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 67,507 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Sussex Police (http://www.sussex.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)
Sussex Police 0.03 698.65
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.03 185.96
British Transport Po​lice 0.04 861.09
Dorset Police 0.05 465.73
Humberside Police 0.05 1608.72
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.05 1359.87
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.06 154.96
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.07 922.17
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.07 2366.65
Merseyside Police 0.07 367.72
Essex Police 0.08 1498.39
Thames Valley Police​ 0.08 1487.94
Bedfordshire Police 0.09 817.54
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.09 3074.79
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary 0.10 945.24
Northumbria Police 0.10 112.74
Surrey Police 0.11 1178.75
Staffordshire Police​ 0.12 338.84
West Midlands Police​ 0.12 1482.36
Kent Police 0.12 204.72
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.13 877.70
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.16 1046.82
Gwent Police 0.16 303.49
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.16 968.69
City of London Polic​e 0.17 278.42
Cleveland Police 0.20 491.80
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.20 283.34
Lincolnshire Police 0.21 701.73
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.22 1089.10
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.23 496.90
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.25 425.93
Cumbria Police 0.25 894.48
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.27 1123.60
Lancashire Police 0.27 449.40
Durham Constabulary 0.28 724.94
North Wales Police 0.33 757.58
National Crime Agenc​y 0.34 512.36
Ask The Police 0.34 985.90
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.40 317.10
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.44 867.11
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.44 7.14
Police Scotland 0.47 1442.68
Cheshire Police 0.48 1435.68
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.54 1238.21
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.92 1551.41
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 1.14 1596.87
South Wales Police 1.26 389.77
Wiltshire Police 1.65 604.99
Organisation A AA
Civil Nuclear Consta​bulary100.0090.40
Thames Valley Police​100.0088.00
Bedfordshire Police100.0046.40
Police Scotland100.0013.60
City of London Polic​e100.000.00
Humberside Police100.000.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service100.000.00
Norfolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​100.000.00
Surrey Police100.000.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force99.2031.20
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry99.204.80
Gwent Police99.200.80
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary99.200.80
Cumbria Police99.200.00
Lincolnshire Police99.200.00
North Wales Police99.200.00
Essex Police98.4060.80
Derbyshire Constabul​ary98.400.00
Lancashire Police98.400.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce98.400.00
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland98.400.00
Dorset Police97.600.80
West Yorkshire Polic​e97.600.00
Staffordshire Police​96.8040.80
Wiltshire Police96.000.00
South Wales Police94.400.80
West Midlands Police​93.602.40
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary92.000.00
National Crime Agenc​y83.200.00
Ask The Police80.800.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry80.800.00
Merseyside Police79.201.60
Cheshire Police77.602.40
Northumbria Police71.200.00
Cleveland Police63.200.80
Leicestershire Const​abulary47.201.60
British Transport Po​lice47.200.00
Durham Constabulary20.800.00
Kent Police17.600.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary12.003.20
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​6.400.00
Sussex Police1.600.00
Greater Manchester P​olice0.800.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.800.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce0.000.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary0.000.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Dyfed-Powys Police Force
  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
  • South Yorkshire Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Northamptonshire Police
  • West Mercia Constabulary
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PDF testing

53.2% 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.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
44.14%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
37.39%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
6.53%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
3.76%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.98%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.73%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
1.04%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.99%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
0.93%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.77%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
21.32%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
21.00%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
13.35%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
10.42%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
10.25%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.99%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
4.17%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.84%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
2.49%
file/image/size
Image file size or dimensions do not match
2.38%