Top of the league and best site overall was Thurrock (www.thurrock.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Doncaster (www.doncaster.gov.uk).
Website Compliance
Accessibility Compliance ñ results of automated testing against the mandatory requirements of Priority 1 (A) Accessibility: 109 sites scored 100%, 278 sites scored 90% and 26 sites achieved a score of less than 1%.
HTML ñ 3 siteís had 0 warnings [HTML standards compliance within the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF]. Crawley (www.crawley.gov.uk) had the poorest HTML with over 241,000 failures.
Website Performance
133 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 (www.essexcc.gov.uk); Rushmoor (www. rushmoor.gov.uk) had the slowest response time, and was 408 times slower than Essex.
The site with the fastest download speed was Boston (www.boston.gov.uk); Stockport (www.stockport.gov.uk) had the slowest download speed and was 527 times slower than Boston.
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Local government website rankings
Overview of findings
