February 2006/UK Retail Banks
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
02 Feb 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/) - 36,175 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Portman Building Society (http://www.portman.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 | 92.45 |
| 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 |
| HSBC Bank plc | 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 |
| Standard Life | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Stroud & Swindon Building Society | 98.45 | 0.00 |
| Coventry Building Society | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Nationwide Building Society | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Northern Bank | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Tesco Personal Finance | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Coutts Private banking | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| Principality Building Society | 97.67 | 0.00 |
| NatWest | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | 96.85 | 86.61 |
| Skipton Building Society | 96.09 | 50.00 |
| Bank of Ireland Northern Ireland | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| Portman Building Society | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Clydesdale Bank | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Derbyshire Building Society | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Yorkshire Bank | 90.55 | 0.00 |
| Barclays | 89.86 | 0.00 |
| Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank | 89.84 | 0.00 |
| Direct Line | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Scarborough Building Society | 89.68 | 0.00 |
| Smile | 86.72 | 0.78 |
| Co-operative Bank | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Cater Allen Private Bank | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| The AA | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Sainsbury's Bank | 71.88 | 0.00 |
| Intelligent Finance | 67.19 | 0.00 |
| Halifax Online | 64.00 | 0.00 |
| Financial Services Authority | 63.20 | 38.40 |
| ING Direct | 59.83 | 0.00 |
| northern rock | 59.38 | 31.25 |
| Unity Trust Bank | 45.60 | 0.00 |
| AIB - Ireland | 44.88 | 0.79 |
| Nottingham Building Society | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Woolwich | 44.44 | 0.00 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 43.31 | 0.00 |
| Prudential UK | 32.00 | 0.00 |
| Ulster Bank | 24.41 | 0.00 |
| The Loughborough Building Society | 21.43 | 0.00 |
| First Trust Bank | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Investec Bank | 9.09 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire BS | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Scotland | 6.98 | 0.00 |
| Hamilton Direct Bank | 6.67 | 0.00 |
| Cheshire Building Society | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Arbuthnot Banking Group | 6.25 | 0.00 |
| Secure Trust Bank | 4.35 | 0.00 |
| The Hanley Building Society | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Leek United Building Society | 1.69 | 1.69 |
| Furness Building Society | 1.02 | 0.00 |
| Citibank UK | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| first direct | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Dunfermline Building Society | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Bank Of Cyprus | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bank of England | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Egg | 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
- Islamic Bank of Britain
- Laiki Group
- Lloyds TSB
- Tesco Personal Finance
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Bank Of Cyprus
- Bank of England
- Egg
- 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/badquery None |
22.66% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
19.42% |
| file/url/offtop None |
19.25% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
9.68% |
| file/url/badpath None |
7.55% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
4.79% |
| file/html/longmeta None |
4.25% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
3.37% |
| file/html/longtitle None |
3.03% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
1.38% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
25.24% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
21.72% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
15.96% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
15.36% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
10.31% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
4.99% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
3.26% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.37% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.45% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.42% |