Report bashes U.K. government Web sites.

• Author: Swartz, Nikki
• Position: Up front: news, trends & analysis - B2W, diagnostic testing and monitoring group, searches for error pages and broken links - Brief Article

According to a report by diagnostic testing and monitoring group B2W, U.K. government Web sites have, on average, 600 errors each--that's seven times higher than the average error rate for the United Kingdom's leading 100 companies.

B2W tested 55 of the government's top sites and found that more than half had 100 errors and 10 had more than 500. Only one site was error-free. The HM Treasury site was found to have more than 6,000 blunders. Other error-prone sites included the Office of National Statistics, the Department of...