2009 Q1/Government and Public Bodies
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
21 Jan 2009
- Total URLs tested:
62,517
- Total tests run:
20,368,725
- Total number of PDF's:
1,950
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.32%
- Pages failing code standards:
56.49%
- Pages missing a title:
0.93%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
11.49%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
87.02%
- Poorest code quality:
Highways Agency (http://www.highways.gov.uk/) - 24,762 failures
- Fastest average response time:
The Crown Prosecution Service (http://www.cps.gov.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Directgov Jobs and Skills | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Health & Safety Executive | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| London Councils | 100.00 | 90.40 |
| Postal Services Commission | 100.00 | 89.60 |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | 100.00 | 85.60 |
| The Pension Service | 100.00 | 72.00 |
| DisabledGo | 100.00 | 69.60 |
| Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister | 100.00 | 68.00 |
| Child Support Agency | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| Met Office | 100.00 | 59.20 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) | 100.00 | 47.20 |
| Office of Rail Regulator | 100.00 | 36.80 |
| The Department of Health | 100.00 | 36.80 |
| National Assembly for Wales | 100.00 | 28.80 |
| Healthcare Commission | 100.00 | 14.40 |
| IDeA Knowledge | 100.00 | 10.40 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 100.00 | 8.00 |
| The Crown Prosecution Service | 100.00 | 5.60 |
| Plaid Cymru | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| UK Sport | 100.00 | 4.80 |
| South West of England Regional Development Agency | 100.00 | 3.20 |
| OGCbuying.solutions | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Government Office Network | 100.00 | 0.80 |
| Business Link | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Cabinet Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Central Office of Information | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Charter Mark | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Community Legal Service Direct | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Companies House | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Conservative Party | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| GovTalk | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Government News Network | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Liberal Democrat Party | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ofwat | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Trading Standards Central | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| UK Government (Directgov) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Welsh Assembly Government | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Local Government Association | 99.20 | 72.00 |
| The Scottish Government | 99.20 | 54.40 |
| Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber | 99.20 | 6.40 |
| Government Office for the North East (GO-NE) | 99.20 | 5.60 |
| Government Office for the East Midlands (GO-EM) | 99.20 | 3.20 |
| Government Office for the West Midlands (GO-WM) | 99.20 | 2.40 |
| Ofcom | 99.20 | 1.60 |
| Home Office | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Ofsted | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Wales Office | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Water Industry Commission for Scotland | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Community Interest Companies | 99.10 | 0.00 |
| One NorthEast | 98.40 | 25.60 |
| Government Office for the South West (GO-SW) | 98.40 | 6.40 |
| Government Office for the East of England (GO-East) | 98.40 | 2.40 |
| Chief Information Officer Council | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Home Office - Drugs | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| NHS Direct | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Office of Science and Innovation | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Ofgem | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Ofqual | 97.60 | 68.00 |
| Department for Constitutional Affairs | 97.60 | 7.20 |
| UK Trade & Investment | 97.60 | 1.60 |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HM Prison Service | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Human Rights | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Transport for London | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| HM Revenue & Customs | 96.80 | 7.20 |
| MI5 | 96.80 | 0.80 |
| Identity and Passport Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Ministry of Defence | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 96.00 | 60.00 |
| Department for International Development | 96.00 | 29.60 |
| Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 96.00 | 18.40 |
| North West Development Agency | 96.00 | 11.20 |
| Government Office for London | 96.00 | 2.40 |
| Department for Culture Media and Sport | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| e-GIF Accreditation Authority | 95.45 | 0.00 |
| Department for Transport | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Public Record Office | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Government Office for the North West (GO-NW) | 94.40 | 2.40 |
| Yorkshire Forward | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Fire Gateway | 92.80 | 5.60 |
| East Midlands Development Agency | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Aviation Authority | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Government Office for the South East (GO-SE) | 90.40 | 4.80 |
| Advantage West Midlands | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Jobcentre Plus | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families | 88.00 | 1.60 |
| DTI - Innovation | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| 10 Downing Street | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| 2005 E-commerce Awards | 86.40 | 0.00 |
| Privy Council Office | 82.40 | 0.00 |
| FSA | 78.40 | 16.00 |
| Planning Portal | 69.60 | 0.80 |
| National Statistics | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish National Party | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 2.17 | 0.00 |
| Government Legal Service | 1.68 | 0.84 |
| Labour Party | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Invest to Save Budget | 0.91 | 0.00 |
| Highways Agency | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| East of England Development Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OPPPA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Insolvency Service | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Directgov Jobs and Skills
- Liberal Democrat Party
- MI5
- NHS Direct
- Welsh Assembly Government
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation
- East of England Development Agency
- The Insolvency Service
- OPPPA
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Government Communication Network
PDF testing
26.9% 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 |
59.77% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
16.59% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
10.27% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
6.08% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
2.27% |
| url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
2.03% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.64% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.34% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.34% |
| url/fetch/badport Server port in URL must be numerical |
0.29% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.20% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
20.08% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
16.98% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.74% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
9.04% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
5.51% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.49% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.40% |
| url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
1.87% |
| file/url/offtop Relative URL attempted to move beyond top level |
0.86% |