October 2007/UK Retail Banks
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
09 Oct 2007
- Total URLs tested:
27,679
- Total tests run:
9,005,659
- Total number of PDF's:
384
- URLs failing functional tests:
5.14%
- Pages failing code standards:
71.63%
- Pages missing a title:
0.33%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
21.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
89.74%
- Poorest code quality:
Derbyshire Building Society (http://www.thederbyshire.co.uk/) - 24,569 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 |
| askBM | 100.00 | 99.22 |
| Ecology Building Society | 100.00 | 98.78 |
| northern rock | 100.00 | 55.12 |
| Cheshire Building Society | 100.00 | 54.40 |
| Cheshire BS | 100.00 | 53.60 |
| Liverpool Victoria | 100.00 | 51.16 |
| Scarborough Building Society | 100.00 | 1.60 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Bank of Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Bankers' Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Furness Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HFC Bank | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Leeds Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| NatWest | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Stroud & Swindon Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Personal Finance | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Ulster Bank | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| cahoot | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Nationwide Building Society | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Portman Building Society | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Bradford & Bingley | 99.20 | 83.20 |
| HSBC Bank plc | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Skipton Building Society | 98.41 | 82.54 |
| Principality Building Society | 98.41 | 2.38 |
| first direct | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| The Melton Mowbray Building Society | 98.35 | 0.00 |
| Britannia Building Society | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| The AA | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Laiki Group | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Bank of Ireland Northern Ireland | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Dunfermline Building Society | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Coutts Private banking | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Triodos | 94.57 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 92.86 | 0.79 |
| Marks & Spencer Money | 92.25 | 0.00 |
| AIB - Ireland | 92.19 | 0.00 |
| Clydesdale Bank | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Co-operative Bank | 90.55 | 2.36 |
| Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | 90.40 | 1.60 |
| Bank Of Scotland | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Smile | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Yorkshire Bank | 84.80 | 0.00 |
| First Trust Bank | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Newcastle Building Society | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 80.00 | 15.20 |
| Halifax Online | 78.57 | 1.59 |
| Direct Line | 74.02 | 0.00 |
| Leek United Building Society | 73.86 | 0.00 |
| Prudential UK | 72.00 | 0.00 |
| Intelligent Finance | 71.43 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Cyprus | 69.70 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 56.80 | 56.00 |
| Investec Bank | 56.25 | 0.00 |
| Nottingham Building Society | 46.40 | 0.00 |
| Unity Trust Bank | 29.92 | 0.00 |
| Coventry Building Society | 22.66 | 0.00 |
| ING Direct | 14.40 | 0.00 |
| Cater Allen Private Bank | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury's Bank | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Northern Bank | 5.47 | 0.00 |
| Citibank UK | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Secure Trust Bank | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Bank of England | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Arbuthnot Banking Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Egg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Islamic Bank of Britain | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- askBM
- Bradford & Bingley
- first direct
- Julian Hodge Bank Group
- Skipton Building Society
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Arbuthnot Banking Group
- Egg
- Islamic Bank of Britain
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- The Hanley Building Society
- www.theloughborough.co.uk
PDF testing
14.8% of checked PDFs were not tagged for accessibility.
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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/offtop None |
41.51% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
15.45% |
| file/url/badquery None |
9.12% |
| file/url/badpath None |
7.39% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
5.86% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
5.66% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.89% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.03% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
2.44% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
1.49% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
31.50% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
14.51% |
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
14.16% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
13.70% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
13.03% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.54% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
3.36% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
2.96% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.53% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.35% |