2012 Q2/UK Police Forces
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
04 Apr 2012
- Total URLs tested:
90,984
- Total tests run:
29,691,922
- Total number of PDF's:
4,697
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.92%
- Pages failing code standards:
73.95%
- Pages missing a title:
1.84%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
14.15%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
91.37%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 14,766 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Gloucestershire Constabulary (http://www.gloucestershire.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.01 | 952.27 |
| British Transport Police | 0.01 | 6797.21 |
| Grampian Police | 0.02 | 71.64 |
| Surrey Police | 0.02 | 3683.44 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 0.02 | 229.60 |
| North Wales Police | 0.03 | 4398.75 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 0.03 | 314.71 |
| Dorset Police | 0.03 | 673.90 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 0.03 | 753.65 |
| West Midlands Police | 0.04 | 957.27 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 0.04 | 178.98 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 0.04 | 1866.70 |
| Kent Police | 0.04 | 464.35 |
| South Wales Police | 0.05 | 831.83 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.06 | 694.86 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 0.06 | 171.01 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1675.29 |
| Durham Constabulary | 0.06 | 1601.11 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 0.06 | 393.70 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 0.06 | 245.75 |
| Fife Constabulary | 0.06 | 191.31 |
| Cleveland Police | 0.06 | 456.11 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.06 | 1759.90 |
| City of London Police | 0.07 | 2670.23 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 0.07 | 1266.45 |
| Strathclyde Police | 0.10 | 534.03 |
| Northumbria Police | 0.11 | 177.20 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.11 | 96.67 |
| Essex Police | 0.12 | 3358.55 |
| Lancashire Police | 0.13 | 759.63 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 0.13 | 1125.06 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.13 | 249.39 |
| Gwent Police | 0.14 | 2088.37 |
| Sussex Police | 0.14 | 503.09 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.14 | 2002.65 |
| Thames Valley Police | 0.14 | 749.47 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 0.15 | 2450.54 |
| Wiltshire Police | 0.15 | 182.43 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.17 | 974.13 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 0.17 | 505.14 |
| Staffordshire Police | 0.19 | 228.52 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.20 | 2066.89 |
| Cumbria Police | 0.24 | 885.99 |
| Northern Constabulary | 0.27 | 577.22 |
| Merseyside Police | 0.27 | 470.05 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 0.28 | 759.27 |
| Ask The Police | 0.28 | 167.37 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 0.30 | 2034.59 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 0.37 | 268.92 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 0.37 | 2635.83 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 0.40 | 1148.05 |
| Tayside Police | 0.41 | 283.34 |
| Humberside Police | 0.42 | 1802.36 |
| Cheshire Police | 0.44 | 693.27 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 0.54 | 977.82 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 0.54 | 340.08 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.56 | 1213.29 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.71 | 305.42 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 8.79 | 299.21 |
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | 100.00 | 95.20 |
| Grampian Police | 100.00 | 85.71 |
| Gwent Police | 100.00 | 82.40 |
| North Wales Police | 100.00 | 79.20 |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 100.00 | 7.20 |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency | 100.00 | 4.00 |
| City of London Police | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Tayside Police | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Association of Police Authorities | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Fife Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Independent Police Complaints Commission | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Norfolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Northamptonshire Police | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Suffolk Constabulary | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Bedfordshire Police | 99.20 | 40.80 |
| Thames Valley Police | 99.20 | 6.40 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| South Wales Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| West Yorkshire Police | 99.20 | 0.80 |
| Lancashire Police | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| Northern Constabulary | 98.40 | 1.60 |
| Dorset Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Lothian and Borders Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| South Yorkshire Police | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Cleveland Police | 97.60 | 44.00 |
| Northumbria Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Staffordshire Police | 97.60 | 0.80 |
| Nottinghamshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wiltshire Police | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Cumbria Police | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Hampshire Constabulary | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Essex Police | 96.00 | 5.60 |
| West Mercia Constabulary | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Warwickshire Police Force | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| British Transport Police | 94.40 | 4.80 |
| Durham Constabulary | 93.60 | 0.80 |
| Cheshire Police | 92.80 | 20.00 |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 89.60 | 2.40 |
| Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 85.60 | 0.00 |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | 84.00 | 37.60 |
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 80.00 | 0.80 |
| Surrey Police | 79.20 | 1.60 |
| West Midlands Police | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Sussex Police | 68.00 | 26.40 |
| Greater Manchester Police | 61.60 | 0.80 |
| Strathclyde Police | 54.40 | 6.40 |
| Merseyside Police | 44.80 | 3.20 |
| Kent Police | 27.20 | 0.00 |
| Humberside Police | 4.80 | 4.00 |
| Ask The Police | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Central Scotland Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Central Scotland Police
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
PDF testing
33.2% 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 |
36.29% |
| file/image/badtype Image file has incorrect type |
35.24% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
13.45% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
7.00% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
3.94% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.75% |
| url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
1.18% |
| file/image/invalid Image file is corrupt |
0.39% |
| url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
0.18% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.16% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
30.90% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
27.30% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
7.72% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
6.39% |
| file/image/size Image file size or dimensions do not match |
6.24% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
6.19% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.30% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.16% |
| file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
1.87% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.54% |