Banking websites review and league table, Co-operative top with AIB bottom

August, 2003 -- Top of the league and best site overall was the Cooperative Bank with the Allied Irish Bank bottom for the third time running. The Coventry Building Society again ranked as the worst building society site of those tested.

Significant improvements were found with the reduced number of errors found, British Banking Assoc and Bank of England showing improvements.

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- 2 sites had no errors, the Bradford & Bingley and LloydsTSB. Coventry Building Society had the highest error count.

- Nearly half the sites tested (14) failed basic meta data test for their front page (the same as the last test) – potentially causing sites unnecessary problems.

- Only 7 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 corporate access [1mb user – this down from 9 last time.

- The site with the lowest number of warnings was Bank of England; Allied Irish Bank again had the highest number of warnings (warnings being mainly lack of compliance with HTML standards).

- The site with the fastest overall server response was Alliance and Leicester, where average page response was 0.0168 seconds. The site with the slowest response time was Abbey National where average page response was some 15 seconds per page across the site.

- The site with the highest download speed was FSA site, and Abbey National had the slowest download speed of sites tested.

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