March 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    08 Mar 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    61,691

  • Total tests run:

    20,072,767

  • Total number of PDF's:

    892

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.63%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.75%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.98%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    58.42%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.78%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 128,171 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.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
Merck100.000.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.210.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes99.200.00
Abbott Laboratories98.410.79
Pfizer96.830.00
Hewlett-Packard96.030.00
General Electric95.240.00
Johnson &​ Johnson95.240.00
Lockheed Martin94.530.00
Aetna94.440.00
Nationwide94.440.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns93.650.00
Chevron93.600.00
Dow Chemical93.600.00
Lehman Brothers93.330.00
United Parcel Servic​e91.270.00
Boeing90.480.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns87.400.00
Wellpoint85.600.00
Motorola83.460.00
Sprint Nextel82.542.38
American Express82.540.00
Prudential Financial​80.800.00
TIAA-CREF79.200.80
Bank of America Corp​.79.200.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices79.200.00
Wells Fargo77.780.00
Deere77.600.00
St. Paul Travelers C​os.76.000.00
PepsiCo75.200.00
Wal-Mart Stores74.800.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos74.020.00
FedEx73.810.00
Intel68.750.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.66.670.00
Cisco Systems61.720.00
Tyson Foods61.110.00
Weyerhaeuser58.270.00
Cardinal Health52.800.00
Marathon Oil48.000.00
Albertson's47.830.00
General Dynamics45.240.00
Plains All Amer. Pip​eline41.600.00
Caremark Rx40.000.00
Merrill Lynch34.400.00
Wachovia Corp.33.070.00
Citigroup30.161.59
Dell25.400.00
Washington Mutual25.000.00
DuPont17.600.00
Sears Holdings14.8414.06
General Motors12.600.00
Allstate11.810.00
Lowe's7.200.00
Raytheon7.200.00
UnitedHealth Group7.090.00
Honeywell Intl.6.300.00
International Paper4.800.00
Northrop Grumman4.760.00
Walgreen3.940.00
AT&​T3.200.00
Goldman Sachs Group3.200.00
Comcast3.170.00
Exxon Mobil3.150.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es2.400.00
Morgan Stanley2.400.00
Johnson Controls2.380.00
Microsoft2.380.00
CVS2.360.00
News Corp.2.340.00
Time Warner1.600.00
Valero Energy1.600.00
Delphi1.560.00
Sysco1.560.00
Costco Wholesale0.800.00
McKesson0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
AmerisourceBergen0.790.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Mass. Mutual Life In​s.0.790.00
United Technologies0.790.00
Home Depot0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
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
Target0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Federated Dept. Stores
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

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

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

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

14.6% 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
56.57%
file/url/badpath
None
7.08%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
6.42%
file/html/notitle
None
5.12%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
4.67%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
4.18%
file/url/offtop
None
2.75%
file/html/badmeta
None
2.74%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
2.56%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.90%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
37.53%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
35.80%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.47%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.73%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
4.44%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
3.60%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.07%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.71%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.72%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.36%