February 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    01 Feb 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    62,843

  • Total tests run:

    20,448,545

  • Total number of PDF's:

    945

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.39%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.91%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.97%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    58.65%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.50%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 121,040 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    St. Paul Travelers Cos. (http://www.stpaultravelers.com/)




Accessibility and Performance rankings Expand / contract icon

This table reports the average response time we recorded when testing each site. A response time above 0.7 seconds can have a negative effect on user experience.

This table reports the percentage of pages on the sites we tested that passed automated WCAG 1.0 A and AA testing (0 means every page had an issue).

Organisation Avg. Response Download (kB/s)
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Organisation A AA
Dow Chemical99.210.00
Abbott Laboratories98.410.00
Berkshire Hathaway98.410.00
Hewlett-Packard98.410.00
Chevron98.400.00
Pfizer97.660.00
Merck97.620.00
Coca-Cola97.440.00
TIAA-CREF96.880.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos96.060.00
Lockheed Martin94.530.00
General Electric94.440.00
Nationwide94.440.00
Aetna93.700.00
St. Paul Travelers C​os.93.600.00
Boeing92.910.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes92.800.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns92.250.00
Johnson &​ Johnson92.060.00
Lehman Brothers91.380.00
United Parcel Servic​e91.340.00
Wellpoint85.600.00
Motorola84.920.00
Bank of America Corp​.83.590.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns83.460.00
Tyson Foods79.690.00
American Express78.120.00
Wal-Mart Stores78.120.00
Sprint Nextel77.954.72
Wells Fargo77.780.00
PepsiCo76.000.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices75.590.00
FedEx74.220.00
Deere73.440.00
Intel72.800.00
Cisco Systems57.940.00
Weyerhaeuser55.120.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.49.610.00
Caremark Rx48.820.00
General Dynamics48.440.00
Albertson's47.411.72
Plains All Amer. Pip​eline39.530.00
Cardinal Health38.280.00
Merrill Lynch34.920.00
Marathon Oil26.980.00
Citigroup26.401.60
Wachovia Corp.25.200.00
Sears Holdings20.1620.16
Dell19.050.00
Prudential Financial​18.253.97
Washington Mutual17.460.00
DuPont17.320.00
UnitedHealth Group14.291.59
Morgan Stanley13.280.00
General Motors12.600.00
Microsoft10.320.00
Allstate8.730.79
Northrop Grumman7.940.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Raytheon6.400.00
Target6.356.35
Comcast6.350.00
Walgreen5.510.00
Lowe's4.650.78
CVS3.940.00
News Corp.2.380.00
Exxon Mobil2.360.00
New York Life Insura​nce2.341.56
Federated Dept. Stor​es2.340.00
Mass. Mutual Life In​s.1.591.59
Costco Wholesale1.590.00
Johnson Controls1.590.00
AT&​T1.570.00
Delphi1.570.00
Valero Energy1.570.00
Sysco1.550.00
Alcoa0.800.00
AmerisourceBergen0.790.00
Goldman Sachs Group0.790.00
McKesson0.790.00
Caterpillar0.780.00
Home Depot0.780.00
International Paper0.780.00
Time Warner0.780.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
United Technologies0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Dow Chemical
  • Federated Dept. Stores
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Sears Holdings
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Archer Daniels Midland
  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • Sunoco
  • United Technologies
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • American Intl. Group
  • Walt Disney
  • Ford Motor
  • Amerada Hess
  • Kroger
  • MetLife
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

14.7% of checked PDFs were not tagged for accessibility.

Sitemorse performs twenty eight checks on PDF documents as part of our website benchmarking to ensure users do not experience problems such as broken links, or failing email addresses - we are also the first to test the accessibility compliance of PDF's.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
48.68%
file/url/badpath
None
8.71%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
7.27%
file/html/notitle
None
5.93%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
5.62%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.04%
file/url/badauthority
None
3.25%
file/url/offtop
None
3.21%
file/html/badmeta
None
2.31%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.13%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
36.39%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
34.73%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
8.03%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.65%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.60%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
4.30%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.58%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
2.05%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.63%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.42%