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Consumer Finance Qtr 3 2010

Error free sites

  • Any Financial
  • Butterfield Private Bank
  • Clarity Credit Management
  • Darlington Building Society
  • Debt Matters
  • Exeter Friendly Society
  • GMAC Commercial Finance
  • C. Hoare & Co
  • Intelligent Finance
  • Julian Hodge Bank
  • Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG
  • Rothschild & Sons
  • Practice Plan
  • N M Rothschild & Sons Limited
  • SMBC Capital Markets
  • Smith & Williamson Holdings Ltd
  • The Mortgage Business
  • Pink Home Loans

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Airdrie Savings Bank
  • Advantage Finance
  • Any Financial
  • Arbuthnot Banking Group
  • BDS Mortgage Group
  • BIBBY Financial Services
  • BNP Paribas Finance
  • Butterfield Private Bank
  • Certegy
  • Charity Bank
  • Close Premium Finance
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Debt Matters
  • EFG Group
  • Euler Hermes Group
  • Gulf International Bank
  • Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen
  • ICICI Bank UK
  • Masterlease
  • Mercer
  • Numis Securities
  • PayPoint
  • Quayle Munroe
  • Reliance Bank Limited
  • Renaissance Capital Limited
  • Sage Financial Services
  • Smith & Williamson Holdings Ltd
  • SVS Securities
  • Teachers Building Society
  • Pink Home Loans
  • Williams de Broe

Excluded from index

  • Altium Capital
  • Beacon Mortgage Packaging
  • DaimlerChrysler Financial Services
  • Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe
  • First National
  • Ford Finance Credit
  • Handelsbanken
  • Harrods Bank Limited
  • KBC Peel Hunt
  • MoneyGram International
  • One Account
  • Panmure Gordon
  • Scotiabank
  • Smartfundit
  • State Street Bank
  • Teachers Provident Society
  • Dexia Public Finance Bank
  • Western Union UK
  • Wolsey Securities
  • Provecta Car Plan

Index facts

Sites tested: 06 Sep 2010
Total URLs tested: 247,612
Total tests run: 80,805,972
Total number of PDF's: 12,772
URLs failing functional tests: 3.99
Pages failing code standards: 87.76
Pages missing a title: 2.62
Pages failing accessibility level A: 32.52
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 32.52
Poorest code quality: Abbey National (http://www.abbey.com/) - 103,338 failures
Fastest overall average response time: St Andrew's Group (http://www.st-andrews.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.

25.8% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
url/fetch/notfound 34.18%
url/fetch/badcookie 33.71%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 20.73%
url/fetch/noeoh 4.69%
url/fetch/accessdenied 2.84%
url/fetch/noaddr 1.90%
url/fetch/badscheme 0.93%
url/fetch/timeout 0.47%
url/fetch/exception 0.26%
url/fetch/badstatus 0.10%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/missingclose 23.06%
file/html/unknownentity 18.12%
file/html/badentity 18.02%
file/html/tagnotallowed 15.08%
file/html/badvalue 8.67%
file/html/badattr 7.10%
file/html/missingattr 2.40%
file/html/unknowntag 1.64%
file/html/closingunopened 1.49%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.98%