2015 Q3/UK Police Forces
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
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 Police | 0.04 | 861.09 |
| Dorset Police | 0.05 | 465.73 |
| Humberside Police | 0.05 | 1608.72 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.05 | 1359.87 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.06 | 154.96 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.07 | 922.17 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 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 Police | 0.09 | 3074.79 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 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 Complaints Commission | 0.13 | 877.70 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 0.16 | 1046.82 |
| Gwent Police | 0.16 | 303.49 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.16 | 968.69 |
| City of London Police | 0.17 | 278.42 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.20 | 491.80 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.20 | 283.34 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.21 | 701.73 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.22 | 1089.10 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.23 | 496.90 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.25 | 425.93 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.25 | 894.48 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 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 Agency | 0.34 | 512.36 |
| Ask The Police | 0.34 | 985.90 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.40 | 317.10 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.44 | 867.11 |
| Police Service of Northern 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 Police | 0.92 | 1551.41 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 1.14 | 1596.87 |
| South Wales Police | 1.26 | 389.77 |
| Wiltshire Police | 1.65 | 604.99 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Thames Valley Police | 100.00 | 88.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 100.00 | 46.40 |
| Police Scotland | 100.00 | 13.60 |
| City of London Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Surrey Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 99.20 | 31.20 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 99.20 | 4.80 |
| Gwent Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Cumbria Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| North Wales Police | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 98.40 | 60.80 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Lancashire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Dorset Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Staffordshire Police | 96.80 | 40.80 |
| Wiltshire Police | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| South Wales Police | 94.40 | 0.80 |
| West Midlands Police | 93.60 | 2.40 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| National Crime Agency | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| Ask The Police | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Merseyside Police | 79.20 | 1.60 |
| Cheshire Police | 77.60 | 2.40 |
| Northumbria Police | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 63.20 | 0.80 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 47.20 | 1.60 |
| British Transport Police | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Durham Constabulary | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| Kent Police | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 12.00 | 3.20 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire 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
- Gloucestershire Constabulary
- South Yorkshire Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Northamptonshire Police
- West Mercia Constabulary
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.
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% |
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% |