Top of the league and best site overall was Salisbury, in second place Craven DC. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Mid Lothian.

Most improved site Worcestershire – moving up over 400 places, showing reduction to virtually no errors and significantly improved build quality, this also helping site performance.

Quality of sites has improved significantly since the previous report, more error free sites and overall reductions in errors across virtually all sites.

- Five sites are error free this month – Salisbury, Orkney, West Dumbarton, NCDC and Wakefield. 73 sites had less than 10 errors. The site with the highest number of errors was Brighton Hove with nearly 6,700+

- 284 sites tested passed basic metadata test for their front page – another improvement.

- 155 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] - another significant improvement.

- Site with the lowest number of warnings was again Tynedale with 1, virtually 100% HTML standards compliance. Crawley had the highest number of warnings, with over 166,000 - another improvement.

- Site with fastest overall server response was again Tewkesbury Borough Council; with an average page response was 0.106 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was Redditch where average page response was over 33 seconds per page.

- Site with highest download speed was Rother; East-Northamptonshire 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% - 70% 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 27th and 29th of January 2004, and a free copy of your own site summary is available on request.