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% |