Test results for Barnet Council
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Totals | Navigation | A-Z | Site search | Readability | Score | Tests | ||
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Total scores | 62 | 52 | 85 | 89 | 87 | 375 | ||
Number of tests | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 59 | ||
Usability Index (total score ÷ number of tests) | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
About the scores
Each task can be tested according to five different criteria - navigation from the home page, navigation using the A-Z directory (where present), searching on Google, searching using the site's internal search, and the readability of the page. Scores are assigned according to 10 = Very easy, 8 = Easy, 4 = Difficult, and 1 = Gave up. As more users complete any given test, the score for each aspect of each task becomes a mean average of all the individual testers scores, and thus the more tests are completed the more reliable an indication of the usability of the website can be seen. The total scores in the table are thus the sum of the averaged scores for the whole suite of tasks which have been tested.
The Usability Index is the sum of the scores of all the tests which have been carried out, divided by the number of tests which have been taken for this council, resulting in an index score between 1 and 10, with 6 being the score which a nominallly usable website with room for improvement might be expected to achieve. If any criteria have had fewer than 15 tests, or the site as a whole has had fewer than 50 individually tested items, the final Index scores are shown in a grey background to indicate insufficient testing for the result to be a reliable indicator.
The Importance column shows the mean average of how important all the testers considered the ability to complete this task to be, ranging from 0 = Unimportant to 5 = Very important.
Specific comments made about this council
Population and census information - find it - 2018-02-20
Link on the home page Information -> more just took me back to the home page, so I could not explore any further. The P and the C sections of the AZ had nothing relevant, and the positioning of the A-Z entries at the bottom of the page under the A-Z links is almost invisible to the user who probably wouldn't see that they've gone to a new page.
Vulnerable adult - express concern about one - 2014-07-10
So unclear about what you are looking for....is it domestic, neglect, financial, etc, etc. Even if you find the right section, the contact details are lost in huge paragraphs and are unclear. The domesstic abuse section helpfully gives an "Exit link" in case you need to leave the sight quickly, but it disappears when you scroll down the page...in other words, useless.
Vulnerable adult - express concern about one - 2018-02-20
Some labeling and positioning of links could be clearer.