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UK Retail Banks April 2008

Error free sites

  • Bradford & Bingley
  • Clydesdale Bank
  • Co-operative Bank
  • Intelligent Finance
  • Julian Hodge Bank Group
  • Leeds Building Society
  • Cheshire Building Society

Failing A & AA on every page

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

Excluded from index

  • Investec Bank
  • The Hanley Building Society

Index facts

Sites tested: 08 Apr 2008
Total URLs tested: 26,168
Total tests run: 8,514,480
Total number of PDF's: 380
URLs failing functional tests: 5.76
Pages failing code standards: 66.97
Pages missing a title: 0.57
Pages failing accessibility level A: 20.93
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 20.93
Poorest code quality: Derbyshire Building Society (http://www.thederbyshire.co.uk/) - 27,808 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.

17.6% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/offtop 43.91%
file/url/badquery 12.95%
url/fetch/notfound 10.93%
file/url/badpath 9.43%
url/fetch/badcookie 6.09%
file/html/badmeta 3.24%
url/mail/exception 2.88%
url/fetch/exception 2.49%
file/html/longtitle 1.85%
file/html/notitle 1.64%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badvalue 34.98%
file/html/tagnotallowed 14.65%
file/html/unknownentity 12.20%
file/html/badattr 11.87%
file/html/badentity 11.71%
file/html/closingunopened 5.32%
file/html/missingclose 3.72%
file/html/unknowntag 3.14%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.54%
file/html/longtitle 0.46%