UK Retail Banks January 2007

Error free sites

  • askBM
  • first direct
  • Julian Hodge Bank Group
  • Skipton Building Society

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Egg
  • Universal Building Society

Excluded from index

  • www.newcastle.co.uk
  • www.theloughborough.co.uk

Index facts

Sites tested: 05 Jan 2007
Total URLs tested: 26,716
Total tests run: 8,692,320
Total number of PDF's: 370
URLs failing functional tests: 5.79
Pages failing code standards: 74.52
Pages missing a title: 0.82
Pages failing accessibility level A: 24.39
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 24.39
Poorest code quality: Co-operative Bank (http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/) - 12,795 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Financial Services Authority (http://www.fsa.gov.uk/)

PDF testing

Sitemorse performs twenty eight checks on PDF documents as part of our website benchmarking to ensure users do not experience problems such as broken links, or failing email addresses - we are also the first to test the accessibility compliance of PDF's.

15.4% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 38.32%
url/fetch/notfound 10.83%
file/url/badpath 9.01%
file/url/badquery 8.57%
file/html/longmeta 6.08%
url/fetch/badcookie 5.71%
file/html/badmeta 4.75%
file/html/longtitle 2.67%
file/html/notitle 2.49%
url/fetch/exception 2.26%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/tagnotallowed 19.24%
file/html/badentity 18.60%
file/html/unknownentity 17.75%
file/html/badvalue 17.71%
file/html/badattr 11.85%
file/html/closingunopened 5.32%
file/html/unknowntag 4.18%
file/html/missingclose 3.11%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.48%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.47%

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