2017 Q3/UK Police Forces



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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 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 2.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
British Transport Po​lice 0.03 1304.03
South Yorkshire Poli​ce 0.04 1901.25
Humberside Police 0.04 2862.15
West Yorkshire Polic​e 0.05 3155.19
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary 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 Consta​bulary 0.11 2211.89
Lincolnshire Police 0.12 794.56
Kent Police 0.13 909.86
Independent Police C​omplaints 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 Co​nstabulary 0.17 762.01
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry 0.17 2792.58
Hampshire Constabula​ry 0.18 519.03
Northumbria Police 0.20 486.48
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary 0.21 374.19
Police Scotland 0.22 3273.44
Dorset Police 0.22 2444.99
Northamptonshire Pol​ice 0.23 514.88
North Wales Police 0.23 1173.53
Sussex Police 0.23 2141.28
Greater Manchester P​olice 0.23 523.75
Lancashire Police 0.23 290.84
Leicestershire Const​abulary 0.23 624.81
Metropolitan Police ​Service 0.23 1789.12
Police Service of No​rthern 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 Poli​ce 0.27 3945.75
Gwent Police 0.27 2081.05
Merseyside Police 0.28 454.30
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce 0.31 206.15
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce 0.31 268.52
Derbyshire Constabul​ary 0.38 1561.87
West Mercia Constabu​lary 0.39 1589.04
Warwickshire Police ​Force 0.40 1392.23
National Crime Agenc​y 0.53 316.51
City of London Polic​e 0.67 1004.87
Wiltshire Police 1.49 263.79
South Wales Police 1.93 175.15
Organisation A AA
North Wales Police89.4692.25
City of London Polic​e56.9592.72
Police Scotland51.0881.93
South Wales Police36.0095.20
Cumbria Police34.1682.67
Bedfordshire Police33.7194.29
West Yorkshire Polic​e30.3385.57
Derbyshire Constabul​ary24.2195.00
Wiltshire Police16.9579.10
Staffordshire Police​16.6186.72
Sussex Police9.7745.49
Devon &​ Cornwall Constabula​ry9.4292.67
Cheshire Police8.9028.27
Nottinghamshire Poli​ce7.0591.67
Cambridgeshire Const​abulary6.5088.50
South Yorkshire Poli​ce5.4295.78
Suffolk Constabulary​5.3490.49
British Transport Po​lice5.2316.86
Hertfordshire Consta​bulary4.8592.07
Lincolnshire Police4.4321.52
Metropolitan Police ​Service4.42100.00
Surrey Police3.9840.30
Police Service of No​rthern Ireland3.9750.99
Norfolk Constabulary​3.7629.57
Dorset Police3.6890.18
Essex Police3.6652.88
Merseyside Police3.3320.67
Gwent Police3.055.34
Avon and Somerset Co​nstabulary2.7281.63
Cleveland Police2.6578.81
Gloucestershire Cons​tabulary2.5619.23
Northamptonshire Pol​ice2.5593.63
Kent Police2.2048.90
Leicestershire Const​abulary2.0496.60
West Midlands Police​1.7431.40
National Crime Agenc​y1.7378.61
Independent Police C​omplaints Commission​1.7080.83
Lancashire Police1.5296.97
Durham Constabulary1.1792.98
Dyfed-Powys Police F​orce1.1093.96
Humberside Police0.9963.37
Greater Manchester P​olice0.9937.62
Northumbria Police0.67100.00
West Mercia Constabu​lary0.0097.08
Warwickshire Police ​Force0.0096.77
Ask The Police0.0043.06
North Yorkshire Poli​ce0.009.93
Hampshire Constabula​ry0.000.00
Thames Valley Police​0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Hampshire Constabulary
  • Thames Valley Police
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • No sites were excluded from this INDEX
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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.

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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%
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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%