Technical Service Bulletin Week 46 - What are INDEX assessments

11 Nov 2019 | Tech Update

Helen Grimbly
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This week, Support Lead, Helen Grimbly will be looking at quarterly INDEX reports. Quarterly INDEXes are run near the start of each calendar quarter. The top 125 pages are assessed of selected sites according to various sectors such as Universities, UK Government, Police and Retail. The categories tested for each assessment include Accessibility, Code Quality, Function and Performance. The configuration applied to each site is the same for all. Custom exclusions for example will not be applied to ensure a level playing field. Once published, INDEX results for an organisation can be viewed for clients, or purchased for non clients. For clients, results are available from the dashboard.

Example of how to view the INDEX Results from the Dashboard

For non clients top level results can be viewed from https://sitemorse.com/index/ (drill down to 'Full Results' tab for a selected INDEX). The INDEXes can be browsed by sector and quarter and purchased from here.

Example of viewing the INDEX Results via the Sitemorse website

For many INDEXes historic reports are available going back many years.