Overview of findings
Top of the league and best site overall was Britannia (
www.britannia.co.uk). At the bottom of the table, representing the poorest site overall, was Bank of Ireland (
www.bankofireland.ie).
Website Compliance
Accessibility Compliance – results of automated testing against the mandatory requirements of Priority 1 (A) Accessibility:
3 sites scored 100%, 20 sites scored 90%+ and 2 sites achieved a score of less than 1%.
HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance within the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Britannia (
www.britannia.co.uk) with 1. British Bankers Association (
www.bba.org.uk) had the poorest HTML with over 70,000 failures.
The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance with the requirements.
Website Performance
17 sites passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users with home [56k] and ADSL [512k] access.
The site with the fastest response time was British Bankers Association (
www.bba.org.uk); Bank of Ireland (
www.bankofireland.ie) had the slowest response time, and was 65 times slower than British Bankers Association.
The site with the fastest download speed was The Bank of England (
www.bankofengland.co.uk); Bank of Ireland (
www.bankofireland.ie) had the slowest download speed and was 39 times slower than The Bank of England.
Website Function
3 sites were error free this month and 7 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of error occurrences was Coventry Building Society (
www.coventrybuildingsociety.co.uk) with over 1,000.
For a copy of the full report please email
bank0305@sitemorse.com
For further inforamtion please contact Graham Jarvis
gjarvis@sitemorse.com 0870 759 3300
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