Banks League Table for January

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 Halifax (www.halifax.co.uk).
1.1 Website Function
 No site was 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 nearly 3,000.
1.2 Website Compliance
 Accessibility – 3 sites scored 100% and 18 sites scored 90%+ looking at the automated Priority 1 (A) accessibility tests. 3 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance within the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was HFC Bank (www.hfcbank.co.uk) with 4. British Bankers Association (www.bba.org.uk) had the poorest HTML, with over 69,000 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.
1.3 Website Performance
 14 sites passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users home [56k] and ADSL [512k] access.
 The site with the fastest response time was Birmimgham Midshires (www.askbm.co.uk); Halifax (www.halifax.co.uk) had the slowest response time, and was 683 times slower than Birmingham Midshires.
The site with the fastest download speed was The Bank of England (www.bankofengland.co.uk); Halifax (www.halifax.co.uk) had the slowest download speed and was 103 times slower than The Bank of England.

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