Local Government League Table for February

OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was Trafford Metropolitan Borough (www.trafford.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Dungannon (www.dungannon.gov.uk).
1.1 Website Function
14 sites were error free this month and 70 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of error occurrences was Sunderland (www.sunderland.gov.uk) with nearly 6,000.
1.2 Website Compliance
Accessibility – 96 sites scored 100% and 257 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests, looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility. 29 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance within the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Tynedale (www.tynedale.gov.uk) with 0. Stoke (www.stoke.gov.uk) had the poorest HTML, with over 197,000 failures.

The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance with the requirements.
1.3 Website Performance
124 sites passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users with home [56k] and ADSL [512k] access.
The site with the fastest response time was Richmond (www.richmond.gov.uk); Middlesbrough (www.middlesbrough.gov.uk) had the slowest response time, and was 1264 times slower than Richmond.
The site with the fastest download speed was Rugby (www.rugby.gov.uk); Middlesbrough (www.middlesbrough.gov.uk) had the slowest download speed and was 402 times slower than Rugby.

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