Top of the league and best site overall was Birmingham Midshires with Co-operative Bank in second place. At the bottom of the table was Bank of Ireland.

- Site with the lowest number of warnings [poor html] was Co-operative Bank [with 87]. AIB again had the highest number of warnings with more than 41,000 again down from last report, second highest was Halifax with over 16,000.

- Two sites were error free; Birmingham Midshires and LloydsTSB.

- 17 sites tested passed basic metadata test for their front page.

- 8 sites passed basic speed test for the front page, testing the site for a modem, ADSL and network based user.

- Site with fastest overall server response time was HFC, with an average page response time of 0.02 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was Yorkshire Bank, with an average page response of over 21 seconds per page.

- Site with the fastest download speed was the Bank of England, slowest was AIB not helped by the number of warnings, poor HTML – both are in the same positions as last time.

- The site that contained the most errors again was the Coventry Building Society, with over 4 times more than any other site. 

 

Accessibility testing

- Again this top site this month was Royal Bank of Scotland

- 8 of the sites achieved a greater than 90% compliance

- 6 sites scored between 50% and 90% compliance for the pages tested

- 18 sites scored less than 50%, with 10 of the 17 sites achieving less than 5% compliance

- 1 site had no pages compliant Britannia, 1 site having less than 0.5% compliance Abbey.

Full results are on page 12 of the report. The tests completed address a number of the requirements for the mandatory priorities 1 only.