2019 Q3/UK Police Forces


Summary

Full results


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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    08 Jul 2019

  • Total URLs tested:

    72,279

  • Total tests run:

    23,501,673

  • Total number of PDF's:

    423

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    2.53%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.12%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    98.06%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    32.95%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Independent Police Complaints Commission (http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/) - 47,333 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    British Transport Police (http://www.btp.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 2.1 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
British Transport Po​lice 0.01 38.18
Staffordshire Police​ 0.07 980.40
Humberside Police 0.07 1656.85
Cleveland Police 0.07 244.01
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.07 691.28
Dorset Police 0.08 1107.19
Bedfordshire Police 0.08 417.65
Cumbria Police 0.08 392.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.08 737.69
Lincolnshire Police 0.09 603.38
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.09 390.74
Essex Police 0.10 717.45
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.11 257.95
Northumbria Police 0.12 598.70
Cheshire Police 0.13 404.89
City of London Polic​e 0.14 470.83
Kent Police 0.15 443.73
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.16 824.33
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.16 351.74
Gwent Police 0.18 912.30
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.18 615.65
Lancashire Police 0.19 176.76
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.20 321.47
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.22 233.29
Sussex Police 0.23 794.69
North Wales Police 0.24 626.31
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.25 432.83
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.25 632.43
Wiltshire Police 0.26 212.79
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.26 732.73
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.26 599.98
Ask The Police 0.27 88.01
Thames Valley Police​ 0.27 608.17
West Midlands Police​ 0.27 382.46
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.27 629.50
Durham Constabulary 0.29 524.41
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.29 553.88
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.32 1141.86
Merseyside Police 0.34 610.20
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.37 689.75
Surrey Police 0.37 710.01
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.38 829.60
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.44 453.56
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.45 312.08
Police Scotland 0.50 581.45
South Wales Police 1.08 148.82
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 1.44 243.88
National Crime Agenc​y 1.64 718.82
Organisation A AA
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary45.4599.24
Suffolk Constabulary​3.7099.26
Norfolk Constabulary​3.7097.78
Police Scotland2.9652.59
North Wales Police2.9615.56
Bedfordshire Police2.2298.52
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry2.2297.04
Gwent Police2.226.67
Cleveland Police1.553.88
Lancashire Police1.5490.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary1.4897.78
Staffordshire Police​1.4897.78
West Mercia Constabu​lary1.4897.78
Warwickshire Police ​Force1.4897.04
Metropolitan Police ​Service1.4896.30
Dorset Police1.4886.67
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce1.4885.93
Cumbria Police1.4885.19
West Midlands Police​1.487.41
South Yorkshire Poli​ce1.486.67
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland1.485.19
Cheshire Police1.483.70
Northumbria Police0.7679.55
Leicestershire Const​abulary0.7499.26
Surrey Police0.7497.78
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary0.7494.81
City of London Polic​e0.7494.07
Hampshire Constabula​ry0.7492.59
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​0.7491.85
National Crime Agenc​y0.7490.37
Lincolnshire Police0.746.67
Derbyshire Constabul​ary0.0098.52
Durham Constabulary0.0098.52
Greater Manchester P​olice0.0098.52
Northamptonshire Pol​ice0.0097.78
Sussex Police0.0097.78
Wiltshire Police0.0096.30
Merseyside Police0.0095.56
South Wales Police0.0094.40
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.0092.80
Thames Valley Police​0.0091.85
Essex Police0.0036.30
Kent Police0.0025.93
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce0.007.41
West Yorkshire Polic​e0.007.41
Ask The Police0.002.40
Humberside Police0.002.22
British Transport Po​lice0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • British Transport Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary
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PDF testing

48.0% 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
33.96%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
27.25%
url/fetch/exception
Exception while downloading file
15.71%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
9.18%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
4.72%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
4.13%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
2.43%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
0.96%
url/fetch/connref
Connection refused by server
0.96%
file/html/mixedcontent
Attempt to include insecure content on a secure page
0.22%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
21.87%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
18.73%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
15.84%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
7.29%
file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
7.27%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
6.03%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
5.77%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
3.57%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
3.45%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.84%