Test results for Sustainability and climate change - find information on

Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.

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CouncilNavigationA-ZGoogleSite searchScoreTestsImportance
Aberdeen City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy123
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy200
Birmingham City CouncilGave upVery easyEasy63
Birmingham City CouncilGave upEasyEasy43
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy-33
Bracknell Forest CouncilEasyVery easyDifficult143
Brent CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy160
Brent CouncilDifficultDifficultDifficult43
Cambridge City CouncilGave upVery easyVery easy43
Cheshire East CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy183
Copeland Borough CouncilVery easyVery easyEasy53
Coventry City CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy160
Coventry City CouncilVery easyVery easyEasy103
Coventry City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy50
Coventry City CouncilDifficultDifficultDifficult33
Darlington Borough CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy153
Gloucestershire County CouncilGave upVery easyEasy60
Harrow CouncilVery easyVery easyDifficult23
Liverpool City CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy103
London Borough of LewishamEasyDifficultEasy100
Manchester City CouncilVery easyEasyEasy33
Manchester City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy183
Newcastle City CouncilGave upEasyEasy83
Norfolk County CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy120
North Lincolnshire CouncilGave upVery easyVery easy33
Nottingham City Council
Oxford City CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy100
Plymouth City CouncilVery easyEasyDifficult73
Surrey County Council
Wandsworth CouncilDifficultVery easyVery easy113

Specific comments made about this task

Bracknell Forest Council - 2014-03-18
No A-Z for sustainability. Internal search - documents coming up first. Very long and wordy page using complex language.

Brent Council - 2014-05-23
Used the 'Site Map' as an alternative to the 'A-Z index'

Brent Council - 2014-08-17
Brent sacks staff posts for Sustainability and climate change LOL Brent Council have lots of PDF (proably all out-dated publications) but no timely/live webpage allocated to Sustainability and climate change.

Cheshire East Council - 2015-07-14
A-Z found climate change but not sustainability.

Copeland Borough Council - 2014-02-12
Considerably more information can be found as a result of a Google search than from the internal search.

Coventry City Council - 2014-02-06
On Google search the relevant information was right at the top making it easier for me to search for it. It was sort of the same with the internal search because they were quite relevant but the page had options of what to click on as PDF files. On the navigation, I weren't really sure where to start looking for it so I gave up. This could be in a separate section or one on it's own. On the A-Z, I found sustainability and climate change. It is better to search for sustainability and climate change separately rather them both together because they are both separate things. This could be because the task could have been worded better or be separate like one for sustainability and one for climate change. Overall, a very good search!

Coventry City Council - 2016-12-23
Information split between sustainability page and a few environmental pages, hard to know which of these to be on. Easy to find information pages but not necessarily easy to find any specific information. Internal search was thrown by 'sustainability' and returned housing policy and FOI requests, not useful.

Gloucestershire County Council - 2014-02-08
Easy to find using searches either website based or Google. Difficult to find using navigation and pretty much impossible using the A - Z

Manchester City Council - 2014-08-31
Annoying that I needed to download an Adobe report rather than just read the information on the website.

Newcastle City Council - 2015-01-21
When carrying out the internal search and google search "climate change" returned the relevant pages but "sustainability" didn't otherwise it would have been very easy

Norfolk County Council - 2014-03-17
I got to the page very easily from Google. However, I'm not sure why I would be searching for information about climate change from a local authority. The page is rather dull and uninteresting self-serving text. There is no task or service provided. Not sure about the "recommended link" in the search returns. Irritating survey pop-up. Adverts: I do not want to see adverts on a council page. Using Google adsense means that the ads will probably have nothing to do with Norfolk. I was served a hotel in Sheffield presumably based upon cookies set my search for a hotel several days ago. A to Z provides links from other councils. If you use an A to Z this could be very useful. Navigation: gave up. The page is not highlighted, which just goes to show it's not important. So, delete.

Nottingham City Council - 2014-12-30
Although the Nottingham City site came up easily the full A - Z was not visible on my screen so I typed travellers into the search button. I did find a document on travellers and housing but it was so slow to open I gave up.Googling Travellers Nottingham City Council did get me a document but it was very basic and had no contact details or links to further information

Oxford City Council - 2014-02-07
Google search turned up relevant page at number 2. Page a bit text heavy. Internal search autofilled and made suggestions which might be helpful, but might sometimes be irritating. A to Z produced a lot of results which might reduce usage; also turned up Oxford County Council pages which, in the case, are irrelevant. Home page a bit disconcerting. Not clear which list of links is the site navigation. Chose "Environment Services" which led to some carbon reduction information, but not the relevant page on climate change.

Surrey County Council - 2014-04-14
Tricky, because climate change is under a topic called energy sustainability. Also difficulties in finding a general page on what Surrey is doing about climate change.