2016 Q4/UK Police Forces



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Oct 2016

  • Total URLs tested:

    90,273

  • Total tests run:

    29,479,775

  • Total number of PDF's:

    5,425

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.52%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    77.68%

  • Pages missing a title:

    0.80%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    26.75%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    97.64%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 68,704 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Bedfordshire Police (http://www.bedfordshire.police.uk/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

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)
Bedfordshire Police 0.04 1561.77
British Transport Po​lice 0.04 761.62
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.04 689.94
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 0.05 1192.59
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.05 6727.17
Humberside Police 0.05 1377.82
Cleveland Police 0.07 2009.24
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary 0.07 2286.59
Merseyside Police 0.08 358.18
Essex Police 0.11 158.48
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.12 695.62
Dorset Police 0.13 1120.66
Cheshire Police 0.13 791.99
Thames Valley Police​ 0.13 1068.19
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.14 1756.87
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​ 0.14 1143.63
Kent Police 0.14 70.05
Norfolk Constabulary​ 0.14 894.54
City of London Polic​e 0.14 914.14
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary 0.15 495.58
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.16 519.45
Suffolk Constabulary​ 0.16 429.50
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.17 654.09
Gwent Police 0.18 253.54
West Midlands Police​ 0.18 998.30
Staffordshire Police​ 0.19 2329.76
Northumbria Police 0.20 392.58
Lincolnshire Police 0.20 999.80
Surrey Police 0.23 1283.63
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland 0.23 493.64
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.24 844.35
North Wales Police 0.25 1765.10
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.26 1365.53
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.26 366.58
Durham Constabulary 0.28 409.73
Sussex Police 0.30 1279.21
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.33 566.19
Ask The Police 0.33 1152.67
Lancashire Police 0.33 186.81
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.41 1134.86
North Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.43 1299.40
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.44 693.10
Cumbria Police 0.45 1274.46
Police Scotland 0.46 2387.84
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.48 1396.29
National Crime Agenc​y 0.57 235.93
Wiltshire Police 2.37 152.05
South Wales Police 6.18 151.21
Organisation A AA
Bedfordshire Police100.0048.00
Thames Valley Police​100.000.80
City of London Polic​e100.000.00
Dorset Police100.000.00
Humberside Police100.000.00
North Yorkshire Poli​ce100.000.00
Northumbria Police100.000.00
Warwickshire Police ​Force100.000.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary100.000.00
Cumbria Police99.2035.20
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary99.2011.20
Lancashire Police99.200.00
Metropolitan Police ​Service99.200.00
Surrey Police99.200.00
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary98.400.00
Lincolnshire Police98.400.00
North Wales Police98.400.00
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce98.400.00
Police Scotland97.604.00
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry97.600.00
Derbyshire Constabul​ary96.800.00
South Wales Police95.330.00
West Yorkshire Polic​e95.200.80
Essex Police95.200.00
West Midlands Police​92.801.60
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland90.400.00
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce88.800.00
Wiltshire Police88.800.00
Sussex Police87.200.00
Hampshire Constabula​ry85.600.00
Merseyside Police80.801.60
Gwent Police79.201.60
Kent Police79.200.00
Staffordshire Police​79.200.00
National Crime Agenc​y78.400.00
Ask The Police76.000.00
Leicestershire Const​abulary45.600.80
British Transport Po​lice34.400.00
Durham Constabulary20.800.00
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​12.800.00
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary12.007.20
Norfolk Constabulary​10.400.00
Cheshire Police4.000.00
Suffolk Constabulary​2.400.00
Cleveland Police1.600.00
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary0.800.00
Greater Manchester P​olice0.800.00
South Yorkshire Poli​ce0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • South Yorkshire Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • Northamptonshire Police
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PDF testing

53.2% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

url/fetch/notfound
File not found
44.20%
url/fetch/errorstatus
Error status code received from web server
28.72%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
13.53%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
4.84%
file/image/badtype
Image file has incorrect type
3.15%
url/fetch/timeout
Timeout downloading file
1.92%
url/fetch/accessdenied
Access is denied
1.38%
url/fetch/redirectloop
Redirect points back to the original page
0.60%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
0.35%
url/fetch/badscheme
URL scheme was unrecognised
0.31%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
25.90%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
25.64%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
10.96%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
10.52%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
6.33%
url/fetch/moved
A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received
4.21%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.95%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
3.77%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.52%
file/html/missingattr
A start tag is missing required attributes
1.90%