March 2006/UK Retail Banks
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
08 Mar 2006
- Total URLs tested:
-
- Total tests run:
-
- Total number of PDF's:
-
- URLs failing functional tests:
None%
- Pages failing code standards:
None%
- Pages missing a title:
None%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
None%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
None%
- Poorest code quality:
Co-operative Bank (http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/) - 36,288 failures
- Fastest average response time:
askBM (http://www.askbm.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 | 90.74 |
| Skipton Building Society | 100.00 | 80.00 |
| Bank of Ireland | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Britannia Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| British Bankers' Association | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HFC Bank | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Leeds Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Liverpool Victoria | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Lloyds TSB | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Marks & Spencer Money | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| The Melton Mowbray Building Society | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| askBM | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| cahoot | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| HSBC Bank plc | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| Nationwide Building Society | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Stroud & Swindon Building Society | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Personal Finance | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Northern Bank | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Coutts Private banking | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Standard Life | 96.85 | 2.36 |
| Coventry Building Society | 96.12 | 0.00 |
| NatWest | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Bank of Ireland Northern Ireland | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | 94.49 | 5.51 |
| Clydesdale Bank | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Direct Line | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Smile | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Principality Building Society | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 93.14 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Building Society | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Yorkshire Bank | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Scarborough Building Society | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank | 89.76 | 0.00 |
| The AA | 86.51 | 0.00 |
| Co-operative Bank | 82.95 | 0.00 |
| Cater Allen Private Bank | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Intelligent Finance | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| Portman Building Society | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury's Bank | 74.40 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Scotland | 73.64 | 0.00 |
| Halifax Online | 73.02 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 70.31 | 43.75 |
| northern rock | 63.28 | 5.47 |
| ING Direct | 59.17 | 0.00 |
| AIB - Ireland | 49.22 | 0.00 |
| Nottingham Building Society | 47.20 | 0.00 |
| Unity Trust Bank | 44.00 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 42.86 | 0.00 |
| Woolwich | 40.79 | 0.00 |
| Prudential UK | 31.25 | 0.00 |
| Ulster Bank | 25.20 | 0.00 |
| The Loughborough Building Society | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| First Trust Bank | 10.94 | 0.00 |
| Hamilton Direct Bank | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire BS | 6.40 | 0.80 |
| Arbuthnot Banking Group | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Building Society | 5.60 | 0.00 |
| Secure Trust Bank | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| Leek United Building Society | 3.45 | 3.45 |
| The Hanley Building Society | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| Citibank UK | 2.04 | 0.00 |
| first direct | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| Furness Building Society | 1.10 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Cyprus | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bank of England | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dunfermline Building Society | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Egg | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Investec Bank | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Islamic Bank of Britain | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Laiki Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Triodos | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Universal Building Society | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Britannia Building Society
- Citibank UK
- Laiki Group
- Lloyds TSB
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Bank Of Cyprus
- Bank of England
- Dunfermline Building Society
- Egg
- Investec Bank
- Islamic Bank of Britain
- Laiki Group
- Universal Building Society
- Triodos
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- Newcastle Building Society
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/offtop None |
25.02% |
| file/url/badquery None |
24.19% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
15.05% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
8.93% |
| file/url/badpath None |
6.06% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
5.44% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.19% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
2.78% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
2.63% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
1.31% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
23.94% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
20.05% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
16.84% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
16.27% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
10.85% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
5.28% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.42% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.53% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.51% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.39% |