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Police League Table for January
Added: (Wed Jan 26 2005)
OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was Cleveland Police (www.cleveland.police.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Northants (www.northants.police.uk).
1.1 Website Function
The site with the lowest number of errors was Cheshire Police (www.cheshire.police.uk). The site with the highest number of error occurrences was Avon and Somerset Police (www.avonandsomerset.police.uk).
1.2 Website Compliance
Accessibility – 2 sites scored 100%, Cleveland Police (www.cleveland.police.uk) and Derbyshire Police (derbyshire.police.uk) and 18 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests, looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility. 4 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 with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Cumbria Police (www.cumbria-police.uk). The site with the poorest HTML was South Wales Police (www.south-wales.police.uk).
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
10 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 Essex Police (www.essex.police.uk) and Kent Police (www.kent.police.uk) had the slowest response time.
The site with the fastest download speed was Durham Police (www.durham.police.uk) and South Yorks Police (www.southyorks.police.uk) had the slowest download speed.
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