Banks League Table for November

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was The Derbyshire Building Society, in second place was Newcastle Building Society. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall again was Britannia.

1.1 Website Function
 No sites were error free this month and 29% of the sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was Coventry Building Society with over 3,200.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was HFC Bank with 4. British Banking Association again had the poorest HTML, with nearly 69,000 failures.
 Accessibility – 1 site scored 100% and 17 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility 4 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 No sites passed the tests for AA, Priority 2 compliance.
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 to the requirements.

1.3 Website Performance
 50% of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download. Simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb].
 The Site with the slowest download speed was; Lloyds TSB; HBOS Plc had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put it into context Lloyds TSB site was 46 times slower.
 The Site with the slowest response time was Lloyds TSB; Birmingham Midshires; had the fastest response time of sites tested, to put it into context Lloyds TSB was 80 times slower.