2017 Q3/UK Police Forces

INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Jul 2017
- Total URLs tested:
95,549
- Total tests run:
31,227,469
- Total number of PDF's:
6,694
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.53%
- Pages failing code standards:
81.16%
- Pages missing a title:
0.85%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
89.54%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
33.06%
- Poorest code quality:
Greater Manchester Police (http://www.gmp.police.uk/) - 18,616 failures
- Fastest average response time:
British Transport Police (http://www.btp.police.uk/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
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 2.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).
Organisation | Avg. Response | Download (kB/s) |
---|---|---|
British Transport Police | 0.03 | 1304.03 |
South Yorkshire Police | 0.04 | 1901.25 |
Humberside Police | 0.04 | 2862.15 |
West Yorkshire Police | 0.05 | 3155.19 |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 0.05 | 1116.93 |
Bedfordshire Police | 0.05 | 1996.08 |
Cleveland Police | 0.07 | 1331.93 |
Essex Police | 0.09 | 1972.48 |
Suffolk Constabulary | 0.11 | 1403.01 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | 0.11 | 2211.89 |
Lincolnshire Police | 0.12 | 794.56 |
Kent Police | 0.13 | 909.86 |
Independent Police Complaints Commission | 0.13 | 954.43 |
Norfolk Constabulary | 0.14 | 683.21 |
West Midlands Police | 0.14 | 1383.87 |
Staffordshire Police | 0.15 | 2147.09 |
Durham Constabulary | 0.15 | 1086.11 |
Surrey Police | 0.15 | 2522.55 |
Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 0.17 | 762.01 |
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 0.17 | 2792.58 |
Hampshire Constabulary | 0.18 | 519.03 |
Northumbria Police | 0.20 | 486.48 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | 0.21 | 374.19 |
Police Scotland | 0.22 | 3273.44 |
Dorset Police | 0.22 | 2444.99 |
Northamptonshire Police | 0.23 | 514.88 |
North Wales Police | 0.23 | 1173.53 |
Sussex Police | 0.23 | 2141.28 |
Greater Manchester Police | 0.23 | 523.75 |
Lancashire Police | 0.23 | 290.84 |
Leicestershire Constabulary | 0.23 | 624.81 |
Metropolitan Police Service | 0.23 | 1789.12 |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0.23 | 902.65 |
Thames Valley Police | 0.24 | 900.33 |
Cheshire Police | 0.25 | 1448.90 |
Ask The Police | 0.26 | 974.52 |
Cumbria Police | 0.26 | 2834.93 |
North Yorkshire Police | 0.27 | 3945.75 |
Gwent Police | 0.27 | 2081.05 |
Merseyside Police | 0.28 | 454.30 |
Nottinghamshire Police | 0.31 | 206.15 |
Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 0.31 | 268.52 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | 0.38 | 1561.87 |
West Mercia Constabulary | 0.39 | 1589.04 |
Warwickshire Police Force | 0.40 | 1392.23 |
National Crime Agency | 0.53 | 316.51 |
City of London Police | 0.67 | 1004.87 |
Wiltshire Police | 1.49 | 263.79 |
South Wales Police | 1.93 | 175.15 |
Organisation | A | AA |
---|---|---|
North Wales Police | 89.46 | 92.25 |
City of London Police | 56.95 | 92.72 |
Police Scotland | 51.08 | 81.93 |
South Wales Police | 36.00 | 95.20 |
Cumbria Police | 34.16 | 82.67 |
Bedfordshire Police | 33.71 | 94.29 |
West Yorkshire Police | 30.33 | 85.57 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | 24.21 | 95.00 |
Wiltshire Police | 16.95 | 79.10 |
Staffordshire Police | 16.61 | 86.72 |
Sussex Police | 9.77 | 45.49 |
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 9.42 | 92.67 |
Cheshire Police | 8.90 | 28.27 |
Nottinghamshire Police | 7.05 | 91.67 |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 6.50 | 88.50 |
South Yorkshire Police | 5.42 | 95.78 |
Suffolk Constabulary | 5.34 | 90.49 |
British Transport Police | 5.23 | 16.86 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | 4.85 | 92.07 |
Lincolnshire Police | 4.43 | 21.52 |
Metropolitan Police Service | 4.42 | 100.00 |
Surrey Police | 3.98 | 40.30 |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | 3.97 | 50.99 |
Norfolk Constabulary | 3.76 | 29.57 |
Dorset Police | 3.68 | 90.18 |
Essex Police | 3.66 | 52.88 |
Merseyside Police | 3.33 | 20.67 |
Gwent Police | 3.05 | 5.34 |
Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 2.72 | 81.63 |
Cleveland Police | 2.65 | 78.81 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | 2.56 | 19.23 |
Northamptonshire Police | 2.55 | 93.63 |
Kent Police | 2.20 | 48.90 |
Leicestershire Constabulary | 2.04 | 96.60 |
West Midlands Police | 1.74 | 31.40 |
National Crime Agency | 1.73 | 78.61 |
Independent Police Complaints Commission | 1.70 | 80.83 |
Lancashire Police | 1.52 | 96.97 |
Durham Constabulary | 1.17 | 92.98 |
Dyfed-Powys Police Force | 1.10 | 93.96 |
Humberside Police | 0.99 | 63.37 |
Greater Manchester Police | 0.99 | 37.62 |
Northumbria Police | 0.67 | 100.00 |
West Mercia Constabulary | 0.00 | 97.08 |
Warwickshire Police Force | 0.00 | 96.77 |
Ask The Police | 0.00 | 43.06 |
North Yorkshire Police | 0.00 | 9.93 |
Hampshire Constabulary | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Thames Valley Police | 0.00 | 0.00 |

Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Hampshire Constabulary
- Thames Valley Police

Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX

PDF testing
51.1% 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.

Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
43.69% |
url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
28.91% |
url/fetch/badscheme URL scheme was unrecognised |
6.31% |
url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
5.28% |
file/image/badtype Image file has incorrect type |
5.16% |
url/fetch/errorstatus Error status code received from web server |
2.87% |
url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
2.46% |
url/fetch/connref Connection refused by server |
1.92% |
url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
0.82% |
url/fetch/redirectloop Redirect points back to the original page |
0.74% |

Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
15.12% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
14.78% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
14.23% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
13.14% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
10.44% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
7.34% |
url/fetch/moved A "301 Moved Permanently" response was received |
6.63% |
file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
5.22% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
3.11% |
file/html/missingattr A start tag is missing required attributes |
2.46% |