July 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    10 Jul 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    63,652

  • Total tests run:

    20,720,778

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,303

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.79%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    91.39%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.08%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    60.49%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.17%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 150,584 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
3M98.440.00
Berkshire Hathaway98.400.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes97.673.10
State Farm Insurance​ Cos97.640.00
General Electric97.6065.60
Motorola96.900.00
Johnson &​ Johnson96.830.00
Wells Fargo96.830.00
Hewlett-Packard96.030.00
News Corp.96.000.00
Boeing95.310.00
Aetna94.440.00
Lockheed Martin94.400.00
United Parcel Servic​e94.400.00
Dow Chemical93.700.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings91.670.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices87.300.00
Pfizer85.710.00
Chevron85.040.00
Johnson Controls84.250.00
American Express84.000.00
Deere81.750.00
Wellpoint80.000.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns77.340.00
Wal-Mart Stores77.170.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns76.190.00
Tyson Foods74.420.00
PepsiCo73.600.00
Sprint Nextel72.000.00
Prudential Financial​71.200.00
TIAA-CREF69.600.00
Bank of America Corp​.69.530.00
Cisco Systems65.890.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.61.600.00
CVS/​Caremark49.600.00
Caremark Rx49.600.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.48.000.00
Intel46.830.00
Merrill Lynch41.270.00
Cardinal Health38.581.57
Dell38.580.00
General Dynamics35.710.00
Citigroup33.332.38
Morgan Stanley20.800.00
DuPont18.250.00
Washington Mutual18.110.00
FedEx16.670.00
AmerisourceBergen15.620.00
Countrywide Financia​l13.490.00
General Motors13.490.00
UnitedHealth Group13.390.79
Exxon Mobil12.400.00
Wachovia Corp.11.020.00
Home Depot8.730.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es8.660.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd6.350.00
Raytheon6.300.00
MetLife5.600.00
Northrop Grumman5.510.00
Microsoft4.800.80
International Paper4.760.00
Lowe's4.760.00
Walgreen3.880.00
Ingram Micro3.260.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group3.150.00
Goldman Sachs Group2.400.00
Sunoco2.380.00
Comcast2.360.00
Marathon Oil1.600.00
New York Life Insura​nce1.600.00
AT&​T1.570.79
Sysco1.570.00
Allstate0.800.00
Delphi0.800.00
Freddie Mac0.800.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.800.00
Alcoa0.790.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Costco Wholesale0.790.00
Time Warner0.790.00
Sears Holdings0.780.78
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
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.

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

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • McKesson
  • 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
  • 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
41.92%
file/url/badpath
None
19.42%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
10.27%
file/url/offtop
None
7.02%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
4.80%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
4.08%
file/html/notitle
None
2.82%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
1.79%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.61%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.14%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
41.50%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
36.93%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.20%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.47%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.17%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.66%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.59%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.30%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.50%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.28%