January 2006/UK Retail Banks
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
01 Apr 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/) - 38,452 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 | 91.67 |
Bank of Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Britannia Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
British Bankers' Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
HFC Bank | 100.00 | 0.00 |
HSBC Bank plc | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Leeds Building Society | 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 |
askBM | 100.00 | 0.00 |
cahoot | 100.00 | 0.00 |
Nationwide Building Society | 99.21 | 0.00 |
Northern Bank | 98.44 | 0.00 |
Standard Life | 98.44 | 0.00 |
Stroud & Swindon Building Society | 98.44 | 0.00 |
Newcastle Building Society | 98.43 | 0.79 |
Alliance & Leicester | 98.43 | 0.00 |
Coventry Building Society | 98.40 | 0.00 |
Principality Building Society | 97.67 | 0.00 |
Tesco Personal Finance | 97.66 | 0.00 |
Coutts Private banking | 97.60 | 0.00 |
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | 96.85 | 87.40 |
Skipton Building Society | 96.09 | 47.66 |
Bank of Ireland Northern Ireland | 96.00 | 0.00 |
Derbyshire Building Society | 95.20 | 0.00 |
Clydesdale Bank | 94.49 | 0.00 |
Bank Of Scotland | 92.80 | 0.00 |
NatWest | 92.13 | 0.00 |
Yorkshire Bank | 91.47 | 0.00 |
Barclays | 90.14 | 0.00 |
Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank | 89.92 | 0.00 |
Scarborough Building Society | 84.92 | 0.00 |
Intelligent Finance | 84.80 | 0.00 |
Smile | 84.50 | 0.00 |
Co-operative Bank | 83.72 | 0.00 |
Portman Building Society | 82.03 | 0.00 |
Cater Allen Private Bank | 80.31 | 0.00 |
The AA | 80.31 | 0.00 |
Sainsbury's Bank | 72.22 | 0.00 |
Halifax Online | 69.60 | 0.00 |
Direct Line | 69.29 | 0.00 |
Financial Services Authority | 60.80 | 56.80 |
ING Direct | 60.19 | 0.00 |
northern rock | 56.25 | 29.69 |
Unity Trust Bank | 50.40 | 0.00 |
Woolwich | 44.44 | 0.00 |
Nottingham Building Society | 44.00 | 0.00 |
Royal Bank of Scotland | 36.51 | 0.00 |
AIB - Ireland | 36.00 | 0.80 |
The Loughborough Building Society | 21.60 | 0.00 |
Ulster Bank | 18.40 | 0.00 |
Prudential UK | 16.00 | 0.00 |
First Trust Bank | 10.16 | 0.00 |
Investec Bank | 9.09 | 0.00 |
Liverpool Victoria | 7.63 | 0.00 |
Hamilton Direct Bank | 6.67 | 0.00 |
Arbuthnot Banking Group | 6.25 | 0.00 |
Leek United Building Society | 5.08 | 5.08 |
Secure Trust Bank | 4.35 | 0.00 |
The Hanley Building Society | 2.38 | 0.00 |
Cheshire BS | 1.60 | 0.00 |
first direct | 1.60 | 0.00 |
Cheshire Building Society | 1.59 | 0.00 |
Furness Building Society | 1.09 | 0.00 |
Citibank UK | 0.80 | 0.00 |
Dunfermline Building Society | 0.78 | 0.00 |
Bank Of Cyprus | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Bank of England | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Egg | 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.
- Britannia Building Society
- first direct
- Islamic Bank of Britain
- Laiki Group
- Leeds Building Society
- Lloyds TSB
- The Melton Mowbray Building Society
- Tesco Personal Finance
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Bank Of Cyprus
- Bank of England
- Egg
- Islamic Bank of Britain
- Laiki Group
- Universal Building Society
- Triodos
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- No sites were excluded from this INDEX
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
file/url/offtop None |
22.26% |
file/url/badquery None |
21.76% |
url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
17.34% |
url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.22% |
file/url/badpath None |
7.13% |
file/html/badmeta None |
5.14% |
file/html/longmeta None |
4.02% |
url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.99% |
file/html/longtitle None |
2.65% |
url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.96% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.61% |
file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.80% |
file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
16.60% |
file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
15.40% |
file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
9.60% |
file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.68% |
file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.98% |
file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
0.96% |
file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.92% |
file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.42% |