June 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    13 Jun 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    63,195

  • Total tests run:

    20,567,599

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,124

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.81%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.77%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.78%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    59.00%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.14%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 147,045 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    News Corp. (http://www.newscorp.com/)




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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
3M98.450.00
News Corp.98.400.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos98.400.00
General Electric97.6263.49
Chevron97.620.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes97.604.80
Motorola96.880.00
Hewlett-Packard96.800.00
Boeing95.280.00
Johnson &​ Johnson94.440.00
Lockheed Martin94.440.00
Aetna94.400.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns93.750.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings91.300.00
United Parcel Servic​e91.270.00
Wells Fargo91.270.00
Pfizer88.000.00
Dow Chemical86.610.00
Johnson Controls86.610.00
American Express86.400.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices84.800.00
Deere80.950.00
Wellpoint80.000.00
Wal-Mart Stores75.400.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns75.190.00
PepsiCo74.600.00
Tyson Foods74.020.00
FedEx73.810.00
Bank of America Corp​.71.430.00
Prudential Financial​70.630.00
Sprint Nextel66.404.80
Cisco Systems60.320.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.60.320.00
TIAA-CREF59.520.00
General Dynamics58.140.00
Intel57.600.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.57.140.00
CVS/​Caremark47.620.00
Caremark Rx47.620.00
Marathon Oil40.160.00
Merrill Lynch34.400.00
Cardinal Health33.600.80
Citigroup32.001.60
Dell25.600.00
Microsoft19.530.00
DuPont19.050.00
Washington Mutual18.250.00
Morgan Stanley14.960.00
General Motors13.280.00
Home Depot12.700.00
Countrywide Financia​l11.900.00
UnitedHealth Group10.321.59
Wachovia Corp.10.320.00
AmerisourceBergen9.520.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es7.200.00
Northrop Grumman7.200.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd7.140.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Lowe's5.600.00
Raytheon5.600.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group4.800.00
Walgreen4.800.00
Exxon Mobil3.970.00
Ingram Micro3.330.00
International Paper3.170.00
Comcast3.150.00
Sunoco2.400.00
Freddie Mac1.600.00
Sysco1.590.00
Alcoa1.570.00
Caterpillar0.800.00
Costco Wholesale0.800.00
McKesson0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
AT&​T0.790.00
Allstate0.790.00
Altria Group0.790.00
Goldman Sachs Group0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.790.00
Time Warner0.790.00
Best Buy0.780.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
Delphi0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Sears Holdings0.000.00
Target0.000.00
United Technologies0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

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

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • ConocoPhillips
  • Delphi
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • Sears Holdings
  • Target
  • United Technologies
  • Valero Energy
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

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

13.9% 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
41.69%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
15.20%
file/url/badpath
None
8.37%
file/url/offtop
None
6.45%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
6.28%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
6.28%
file/html/notitle
None
3.30%
file/html/badmeta
None
2.39%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.26%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
1.35%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
41.39%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
36.97%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.22%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.43%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.23%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.72%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.51%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.32%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.54%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.27%