March 20, 2009

UK banks not too good online

The UK’s top five banks did not fair too well when they were road tested by the finance 1000 website index, this is where banking and finance websites are tested and graded to certain standards.

Yet none of the UK’s top five banks websites made it into the top ten, in fact the UK’s leading finance website for compliance, performance and accessibility, is the site operated by Intelligent Finance.

How the websites were tested:
Accessibility to A, AA and AAA guidelines
First page, metadata and download times
Server response times
Reported site errors reported and errors per page
Site HTML warnings reported and warnings per page
Calculated site download speed

The UK finance website that showed the most improvement was the Thinc Group, its website moved 884 places up the table to 11th spot.

Source [Real Wire]