October 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 Oct 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    64,935

  • Total tests run:

    21,130,629

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,029

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.92%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    89.86%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.19%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    58.43%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.01%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 212,821 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
Merck99.210.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos99.210.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.200.00
3M98.430.00
Hewlett-Packard96.800.00
Johnson &​ Johnson96.090.00
TIAA-CREF96.030.00
General Electric96.0076.80
Chevron96.000.80
Aetna94.490.00
Boeing94.440.00
Wells Fargo92.800.80
Motorola92.190.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings92.000.00
News Corp.92.000.00
United Parcel Servic​e91.200.00
Exxon Mobil89.600.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices88.890.00
Dow Chemical87.400.00
Johnson Controls86.510.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes85.047.09
American Express81.750.00
Deere77.950.00
Tyson Foods77.780.00
PepsiCo77.600.00
Wellpoint77.480.00
Sprint Nextel76.190.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns75.970.00
Wal-Mart Stores73.440.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns72.220.00
Pfizer72.090.00
Caremark Rx71.430.00
Bank of America Corp​.68.500.00
Prudential Financial​68.000.00
Cisco Systems61.900.00
General Motors59.520.00
Costco Wholesale53.600.00
Intel50.390.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.46.030.00
Delphi45.600.00
General Dynamics45.600.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.44.530.00
Ford Motor39.370.00
Dell34.920.00
Walgreen34.400.00
Citigroup33.862.36
Merrill Lynch33.330.00
Cardinal Health22.401.60
DuPont18.250.00
Washington Mutual17.320.00
Wachovia Corp.15.750.00
Morgan Stanley15.080.00
Northrop Grumman12.500.00
FedEx11.630.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.320.00
Allstate8.000.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es8.000.00
AmerisourceBergen7.870.00
UnitedHealth Group7.090.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd6.350.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group5.510.00
Raytheon4.760.00
International Paper4.000.00
MetLife3.940.00
Microsoft3.940.00
Home Depot3.200.00
Lowe's2.400.00
Marathon Oil1.600.00
Time Warner1.600.00
Sysco1.570.00
Ingram Micro1.140.00
Comcast0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
Sears Holdings0.790.79
Caterpillar0.790.00
Freddie Mac0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.790.00
Altria Group0.780.00
AT&​T0.000.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
Goldman Sachs Group0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
Target0.000.00
United Technologies0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Alcoa
  • AT&T
  • Best Buy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Goldman Sachs Group
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • McKesson
  • Sunoco
  • 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
  • Hess
  • Kroger
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

11.4% 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
91.52%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
2.21%
file/url/badpath
None
2.10%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.92%
file/url/offtop
None
0.87%
file/html/notitle
None
0.52%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.33%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.28%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
0.22%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.19%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.85%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
38.45%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
5.99%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
2.96%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.47%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.46%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.99%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.26%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.95%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.23%