May 2006/UK Retail Banks
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 May 2006
- Total URLs tested:
-
- Total tests run:
-
- Total number of PDF's:
-
- URLs failing functional tests:
None%
- Pages failing code standards:
None%
- Pages missing a title:
None%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
None%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
None%
- Poorest code quality:
Co-operative Bank (http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/) - 35,816 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Bank of Ireland (http://www.bank-of-ireland.co.uk/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
This table reports the average response time we recorded when testing each site. A response time above 0.7 seconds can have a negative effect on user experience.
This table reports the percentage of pages on the sites we tested that passed automated WCAG 1.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).
| Organisation | Avg. Response | Download (kB/s) |
|---|---|---|
| Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards | ||
| Organisation | A | AA |
|---|---|---|
| Julian Hodge Bank Group | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Skipton Building Society | 100.00 | 92.91 |
| askBM | 100.00 | 66.67 |
| cahoot | 100.00 | 1.47 |
| Bank of Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Britannia Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Bankers' Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ecology Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HFC Bank | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Bank plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Leeds Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Liverpool Victoria | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Money | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Melton Mowbray Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Coutts Private banking | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| NatWest | 98.44 | 0.00 |
| Nationwide Building Society | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Principality Building Society | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Coventry Building Society | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Personal Finance | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| Stroud & Swindon Building Society | 96.90 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Bank of Ireland Northern Ireland | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Smile | 96.03 | 5.56 |
| Yorkshire Bank | 94.49 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 94.35 | 0.00 |
| Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | 92.91 | 3.15 |
| Clydesdale Bank | 92.91 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.13 | 8.66 |
| Scarborough Building Society | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Building Society | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 86.82 | 0.00 |
| Prudential UK | 85.83 | 0.00 |
| Direct Line | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank | 84.92 | 0.00 |
| Nottingham Building Society | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| The AA | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Cater Allen Private Bank | 82.54 | 0.00 |
| Co-operative Bank | 80.47 | 0.78 |
| Bank Of Scotland | 78.74 | 0.00 |
| Intelligent Finance | 78.74 | 0.00 |
| Portman Building Society | 78.57 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 73.60 | 50.40 |
| Halifax Online | 71.65 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury's Bank | 65.87 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Cyprus | 62.07 | 0.00 |
| ING Direct | 59.17 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 55.56 | 0.00 |
| northern rock | 51.97 | 33.86 |
| Unity Trust Bank | 40.94 | 0.00 |
| Woolwich | 39.74 | 0.00 |
| AIB - Ireland | 34.11 | 0.00 |
| Ulster Bank | 25.78 | 0.00 |
| First Trust Bank | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| Hamilton Direct Bank | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Arbuthnot Banking Group | 5.88 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire BS | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Building Society | 5.51 | 0.00 |
| Secure Trust Bank | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Citibank UK | 3.49 | 0.00 |
| Leek United Building Society | 2.99 | 2.99 |
| The Hanley Building Society | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| first direct | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Furness Building Society | 1.09 | 0.00 |
| Dunfermline Building Society | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Bank of England | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Egg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Investec Bank | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Islamic Bank of Britain | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laiki Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Triodos | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Universal Building Society | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Alliance & Leicester
- askBM
- Britannia Building Society
- Citibank UK
- Julian Hodge Bank Group
- Lloyds TSB
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Bank of England
- Egg
- Investec Bank
- Islamic Bank of Britain
- Laiki Group
- Universal Building Society
- Triodos
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Northern Bank
- Newcastle Building Society
- The Loughborough
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
23.38% |
| file/url/offtop None |
17.72% |
| file/url/badpath None |
16.97% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
14.02% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
7.71% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
5.41% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.38% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.89% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.33% |
| file/html/metascheme None |
1.34% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
21.26% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.36% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
18.78% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
17.12% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
10.34% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.03% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.36% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.84% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.40% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.39% |