1. Overview of Findings
Top of the league and the best site overall was the Child Support Agency (www.csa.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was the Department of Trade and Industry (www.dti.gov.uk).

1.1 Website Function
- 4 sites were error free this month and 19 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was the Human Rights site with over 705.

1.2 Website Compliance
- HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF was the Child Support Agency with 3. HM Government and Excise had the poorest HTML, with nearly 45,000 failures.
- Accessibility – 16 sites scored 100% and 37 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility. 5 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
- 29 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 Office of Rail Regulation; Resource had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put in context the Office of Rail Regulation site was 92 times slower than the resource site.
- The site with the slowest response time was Office of Rail Regulation; Innovation had the fastest response time of sites tested and was 264 times slower than The Innovation site.