December League Table for Councils

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was Oldham (www.oldham.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Dungannon (www.dungannon.gov.uk).

1.1 Website Function
 11 sites were error free this month and 130 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was Sunderland with over 7,000.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML – The sites with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] were Thurrock and Spelthorne with 0. Crawley had the poorest HTML, with nearly 233,000 failures.
 Accessibility – 76 sites scored 100% and 241 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility. 28 of sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 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 to the requirements.

1.3 Website Performance
 19% of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users with home [56k], ADSL [512k] and corporate access [1mb].
 The site with the slowest download speed was Blackburn; Scilly had the fastest download speed and was 261 times faster than Blackburn.
 The site with the slowest response time was Doncaster; Chiltern had the fastest response time, and was 1,254 times faster than Doncaster.