August 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    13 Aug 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    63,478

  • Total tests run:

    20,661,550

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,200

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.05%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.33%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.09%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    60.35%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.06%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 202,452 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 Hathaway99.200.00
3M98.440.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos98.410.00
Wells Fargo97.640.79
TIAA-CREF97.640.00
General Electric97.6269.84
Motorola96.880.00
Hewlett-Packard96.830.00
Johnson &​ Johnson96.800.00
Boeing95.280.00
Aetna94.400.00
Lockheed Martin94.400.00
News Corp.93.600.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns92.060.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings91.670.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes91.205.60
United Parcel Servic​e90.550.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices88.890.00
Dow Chemical86.400.00
Chevron85.710.79
Deere85.710.00
Johnson Controls82.540.00
American Express80.000.00
Sprint Nextel80.000.00
PepsiCo78.400.00
Wellpoint76.380.00
Tyson Foods75.780.00
Prudential Financial​75.590.00
Wal-Mart Stores75.200.00
Bank of America Corp​.68.500.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns66.670.00
Pfizer64.000.00
Cisco Systems63.200.00
Dell61.720.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.56.000.00
Intel55.910.00
CVS/​Caremark52.800.00
General Dynamics49.610.00
Caremark Rx49.210.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.49.210.00
Cardinal Health34.131.59
Merrill Lynch33.330.00
Citigroup32.803.20
Wachovia Corp.25.600.00
Washington Mutual18.900.00
DuPont18.250.00
FedEx16.670.00
Morgan Stanley15.870.00
General Motors14.060.00
AmerisourceBergen13.600.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.400.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es8.800.00
Northrop Grumman7.870.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd7.810.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
MetLife5.510.00
Exxon Mobil4.800.00
Walgreen3.970.00
International Paper3.910.00
Home Depot3.200.00
Microsoft3.200.00
UnitedHealth Group3.200.00
Raytheon3.170.00
AT&​T2.380.79
Sunoco2.380.00
Sears Holdings2.342.34
Time Warner1.600.00
Lowe's1.590.00
Sysco1.590.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group1.570.00
Ingram Micro1.120.00
Allstate0.800.00
Comcast0.800.00
Freddie Mac0.800.00
Goldman Sachs Group0.800.00
Altria Group0.790.00
Costco Wholesale0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.790.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.790.00
Caterpillar0.780.00
Delphi0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Marathon Oil0.000.00
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.

  • 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.

  • Alcoa
  • Best Buy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • Marathon Oil
  • 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

13.3% 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
48.28%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
12.09%
file/url/badpath
None
7.53%
file/url/offtop
None
6.57%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
5.81%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.49%
file/html/notitle
None
3.05%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
2.07%
file/html/badmeta
None
1.81%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
1.57%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.30%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
37.60%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.71%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.40%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.75%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.39%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.37%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.31%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.51%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.27%