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UK Retail Banks March 2007

Error free sites

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

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Arbuthnot Banking Group
  • Egg
  • Islamic Bank of Britain

Excluded from index

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

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 Mar 2007
Total URLs tested: 25,188
Total tests run: 8,196,968
Total number of PDF's: 418
URLs failing functional tests: 5.78
Pages failing code standards: 74.53
Pages missing a title: 0.67
Pages failing accessibility level A: 22.64
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 22.64
Poorest code quality: First Trust Bank (http://www.firsttrustbank.co.uk/) - 28,542 failures
Fastest overall average response time: Ecology Building Society (http://www.ecology.co.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.

16.0% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 44.46%
file/url/badpath 9.63%
url/fetch/notfound 8.78%
file/url/badquery 8.04%
file/html/longmeta 6.35%
url/fetch/badcookie 5.18%
file/html/badmeta 3.81%
file/html/longtitle 2.61%
url/mail/badsmtp 2.57%
url/mail/exception 2.36%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 21.68%
file/html/unknownentity 20.66%
file/html/badvalue 17.64%
file/html/tagnotallowed 15.37%
file/html/badattr 11.64%
file/html/closingunopened 4.19%
file/html/unknowntag 3.76%
file/html/missingclose 3.06%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.53%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.42%