Report and Ranking; NHS Trusts Websites.

Top of the league and best site overall was www.hospitalsineastlancs.nhs.uk, in second place www.bucksmentalhealth.com. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was www.beh.nhs.uk/mentalhealth. To request a copy of the report email NHS0803@sitemorse.com.

(PRWEB) August 31, 2003 -- Top of the league and best site overall was www.hospitalsineastlancs.nhs.uk, in second place www.bucksmentalhealth.com. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was www.beh.nhs.uk/mentalhealth.

To request a copy of the report email NHS0803@sitemorse.com.

- 10 websites we found no errors, also the number of sites with less than 10 errors is probably the highest found so far, with 77.

- There were 4 sites that had over 1,000 errors; the site with the most errors being www.northbristol.nhs.uk, having over 12,000. No other sites had more than 5,000.

- 81 sites passed basic meta data test for their front page, 115 of the tested sites failing -- going against the government standard 'EGMS', along with causing sites unnecessary problems.

- 43 of the sites tested failed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download, simulated as being viewed by a home [56k] (127 passed), ADSL [512k] (114 passed) and corporate access [1mb] (86 passed) user, with 73 passing all tests.

- The site with the lowest number of warnings (warnings being mainly problems with html code for the site) was www.cddah.nhs.uk with 0 (one of the first sites ever to have none); www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk had the highest number of warnings, with over 318,000.

- The site with the fastest overall server response was www.sussamb.nhs.uk, where average page response was 0.025 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was www.beh.nhs.uk/mentalhealth where average page response was over 8.8 seconds per page.

- The site with the highest download speed was www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk, and www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk had the slowest download speed of sites tested (this may be directly related to the very poor html on the site).
The methodologies used for both the Weighted Percentage Ratings and Weighted B2W MorseMark Ratings are detailed in the document.

The findings take into account the site size; e.g. a website with 10 pages and 1 error would score the same as a website with 100 pages and 10 errors -- both having page/error ratio of 10:1

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