UK Retail Banks January 2008

Error free sites

  • Bradford & Bingley
  • Julian Hodge Bank Group

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Arbuthnot Banking Group
  • Egg
  • Islamic Bank of Britain
  • Secure Trust Bank

Excluded from index

  • The Hanley Building Society
  • Unity Trust Bank

Index facts

Sites tested: 08 Jan 2008
Total URLs tested: 27,228
Total tests run: 8,860,618
Total number of PDF's: 443
URLs failing functional tests: 5.41
Pages failing code standards: 71.11
Pages missing a title: 0.51
Pages failing accessibility level A: 19.71
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 19.71
Poorest code quality: Derbyshire Building Society (http://www.thederbyshire.co.uk/) - 22,481 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.

20.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 42.81%
url/fetch/notfound 12.62%
file/url/badquery 8.40%
url/fetch/badcookie 6.98%
file/url/badpath 6.27%
file/html/badmeta 4.85%
url/mail/exception 4.57%
url/mail/badsmtp 3.86%
file/html/longtitle 3.26%
file/html/notitle 1.45%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badvalue 27.44%
file/html/tagnotallowed 16.24%
file/html/unknownentity 14.61%
file/html/badentity 14.16%
file/html/badattr 13.91%
file/html/closingunopened 4.79%
file/html/missingclose 3.27%
file/html/unknowntag 3.11%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.61%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.45%

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