NHS Report and Ranking - Dec '03

14 Jan 2004

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Top of the league and best site overall was Mental Health Research Group, in second place Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust.

- Three sites are error free this month – Mental Health Research Group, and East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Sussex Ambulance. 58 sites had less than 10 errors. The site with the highest number of errors was North Bristol NHS Trust with over 4,700.

- 3 sites that had over 1,000 errors.

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

- 61 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download [results down from last month], 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 Sussex Ambulance with 0, the first site to achieve 100% HTML standards compliance. West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust had the highest number of warnings, with over 30,000.

- Site with fastest overall server response was again The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, with an average page response was 0.034 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust where average page response was over 10 seconds per page.

- Site with highest download speed was Northern Devon
Healthcare Trust; was Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust had the slowest download speed of sites tested.

Accessibility testing
- 3 sites passed all accessibility rests;
- 26 of the sites achieved a greater than 90% compliance
- 42 sites scored under 10%
- 25 sites had no pages compliant.