September 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    12 Sep 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    63,729

  • Total tests run:

    20,740,135

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,085

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.05%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    91.13%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.28%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    60.47%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.10%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - 204,930 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
CVS/​Caremark100.000.00
Lockheed Martin100.000.00
News Corp.100.000.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.210.00
3M98.440.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos98.440.00
Merck97.600.00
General Electric96.8367.46
Johnson &​ Johnson96.060.00
Hewlett-Packard96.000.00
TIAA-CREF95.280.00
Boeing95.240.00
Aetna94.440.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes94.407.20
Wells Fargo93.701.57
United Parcel Servic​e92.130.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings91.300.00
Dow Chemical90.550.00
Motorola90.550.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices90.480.00
Chevron89.060.00
Johnson Controls84.920.00
PepsiCo80.160.00
American Express77.950.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns77.340.00
Wellpoint76.640.00
Sprint Nextel76.190.00
Deere76.000.00
Tyson Foods75.000.00
Wal-Mart Stores74.600.00
Prudential Financial​71.090.00
Pfizer68.800.00
Bank of America Corp​.68.250.00
Caremark Rx67.460.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns66.140.00
Cisco Systems64.000.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.61.110.00
Intel53.120.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.48.410.00
Dell47.660.00
General Motors43.310.79
Merrill Lynch33.600.00
General Dynamics32.280.00
Cardinal Health31.501.57
Citigroup27.200.80
Costco Wholesale19.200.00
DuPont19.050.00
Washington Mutual18.900.00
FedEx17.830.00
Morgan Stanley17.190.00
Wachovia Corp.13.490.00
AmerisourceBergen11.720.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.320.00
UnitedHealth Group8.800.80
Northrop Grumman8.800.00
Microsoft8.660.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es8.000.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
International Paper5.510.00
Exxon Mobil4.800.00
Raytheon4.800.00
MetLife3.970.00
Walgreen3.910.00
Home Depot3.170.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd3.150.00
AT&​T2.380.79
Marathon Oil1.600.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group1.590.00
Sysco1.590.00
Caterpillar1.570.00
Time Warner1.570.00
Comcast1.550.00
Lowe's1.550.00
Ingram Micro1.110.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.800.00
McKesson0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
Altria Group0.790.00
Delphi0.790.00
Goldman Sachs Group0.790.00
Sunoco0.790.00
Allstate0.780.00
Freddie Mac0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
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.

  • Dow Chemical
  • Federated Dept. Stores
  • Johnson Controls
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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
  • 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
  • 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
90.74%
file/url/badpath
None
2.62%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
2.03%
file/url/offtop
None
1.26%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.93%
file/html/notitle
None
0.54%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.38%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.34%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.20%
file/url/badscheme
None
0.18%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.88%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
38.47%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.49%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.10%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.60%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.23%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.96%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.21%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.39%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.26%