Site Report

This tab shows general usability issues, indicating navigation problems for all users.

Status	Summary
	Usability.gov Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines.
	W3C Best Practices - Some pages violate these guidelines.
	Readability - No issues found.

Priority	Description and URL	Guideline and Line#	Count
Priority 2 2 issues on 6 pages
	Keep URLs shorter than 78 characters so they don't wrap when emailed.	W3C	4 pages
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/NewApplicationsSearch.aspx	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/RecentDecisionsSearch.aspx	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/SiteFiles/Skins/Liverpool_WIP/Templates/images/app_footer_bg.gif	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/SiteFiles/Skins/Liverpool_WIP/images/callout-tick.png	Line 1
	This page title is not unique. Each page should have a descriptive and meaningfully different title.	Usability.gov 9:2	2 pages
	Title refers to the text displayed on browser tabs, favorites, and in search engines results pages. If two or more pages have the same title, they cannot be differentiated by users or the Favorites capability of the browser.
	'Planning Application Search' is also used on http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ApplicationSearch.aspx	Line 5
	'Planning Application Search' is also used on http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 5
Priority 3 2 issues on 5 pages
	Use link text between 3 and 100 characters so it's long enough to be understood, but avoids line wrapping.	Usability.gov 10:11	5 pages
	A single word text link may not give enough information about the link's destination. A link that is a full sentence is difficult to read quickly, particularly if it wraps to another line.
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 833 836 839 842 845 ...
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ApplicationSearch.aspx	Line 148 149 150 151 152 ...
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 375 376 377 378 379 ...
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/NewApplicationsSearch.aspx	Line 181 182 183 184 185 ...
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/RecentDecisionsSearch.aspx	Line 213 214 215 216 217 ...
	Use option groups when a drop down list has more than 10 items.	Usability.gov 13:12	2 pages
	Group related options using optgroup elements.
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 142 247 298 449 519
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 119 156 175 227 252
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