April 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Apr 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    58,969

  • Total tests run:

    19,181,383

  • Total number of PDF's:

    633

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.45%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    91.06%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.95%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    58.46%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.80%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 147,000 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    News Corp. (http://www.newscorp.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
Berkshire Hathaway99.200.00
Merck98.410.00
Abbott Laboratories98.400.00
Chevron96.800.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes96.000.00
Aetna95.280.00
Johnson &​ Johnson95.240.00
General Electric95.200.00
Lockheed Martin94.400.00
Lehman Brothers93.550.00
Pfizer92.910.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns92.860.00
Nationwide92.130.00
Boeing90.480.00
Hewlett-Packard90.480.00
United Parcel Servic​e90.480.00
Dow Chemical89.760.00
Wellpoint85.710.00
Motorola85.040.00
American Express84.920.00
Deere82.400.00
Prudential Financial​81.890.00
St. Paul Travelers C​os.80.000.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos79.530.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns79.530.00
Wal-Mart Stores76.980.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices76.380.00
TIAA-CREF75.401.59
PepsiCo75.200.00
Bank of America Corp​.74.800.00
Dell73.810.00
FedEx73.810.00
Wells Fargo71.880.00
Cisco Systems67.460.00
Intel64.570.00
Sprint Nextel59.842.36
Weyerhaeuser58.590.00
Albertson's56.630.00
General Dynamics54.330.00
Cardinal Health51.200.00
Marathon Oil48.800.00
Caremark Rx48.000.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.47.620.00
Tyson Foods47.200.00
Merrill Lynch35.430.00
Wachovia Corp.33.070.00
Citigroup32.002.40
Washington Mutual26.980.00
General Motors17.830.00
DuPont17.600.00
Sears Holdings11.7210.94
Lowe's7.940.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Northrop Grumman6.400.00
Walgreen6.350.00
UnitedHealth Group5.470.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd5.430.00
Morgan Stanley4.720.00
Raytheon4.000.00
Comcast3.200.00
International Paper3.150.00
Microsoft3.150.00
CVS2.400.00
Exxon Mobil2.400.00
News Corp.2.400.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es2.380.00
Allstate2.340.00
AT&​T1.600.00
Goldman Sachs Group1.600.00
Sysco1.570.00
Valero Energy1.570.00
AmerisourceBergen0.800.00
Mass. Mutual Life In​s.0.800.00
McKesson0.800.00
Time Warner0.800.00
United Technologies0.800.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Costco Wholesale0.790.00
Delphi0.790.00
Johnson Controls0.790.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.790.00
Home Depot0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
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.

  • Dell
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • 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
  • Plains All Amer. Pipeline
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

16.9% 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
60.60%
file/url/badpath
None
7.52%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
5.80%
file/html/notitle
None
4.65%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
4.47%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
4.41%
file/html/badmeta
None
2.47%
file/url/offtop
None
2.46%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.72%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.53%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
37.72%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
36.63%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.18%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
4.63%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.97%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
3.43%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.21%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.76%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.62%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.35%