Nov '03 - Local Gov Websites Report and Ranking

30 Nov 2003

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Top of the league and best site overall was Craven District Council, in second place Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was City of Sunderland.

- Two sites are error free this month – Trafford Metropolitan and Hinckley & Bosworth. 60 sites had less than 10 errors. The site with the highest number of errors was Brighton Hove.

- 19 sites that had over 1,000 errors, improvement from last month.

- 279 sites tested passed basic metadata test for their front page.

- 69 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download, simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb].

- Site with the lowest number of warnings was again Trafford Metropolitan with 1. Crawley had the highest number of warnings, with over 160,000.

- Site with fastest overall server response was Tewkesbury Borough Council, with an average page response was 0.084 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was Forest of Dean District Council where average page response was over 55 seconds per page.

- Site with highest download speed was Glasgow; Macclesfield had the slowest download speed of sites tested.

For the purpose of is this report, tests were confined to the top 250 pages of the website [from the Home Page] representing around 65% of the prominent areas a site visitor will view. The findings take into account the site size; e.g. a website with 10 pages and 1 error would score the same as a website with 100 pages and 10 errors – both having page/error ratio of 10:1

Tests were completed between 19th and the 21st of November 2003, and a free copy of your own site summary is available on request.