November 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    12 Nov 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    62,062

  • Total tests run:

    20,199,946

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,146

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.15%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    89.68%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.49%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    55.61%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.00%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 216,318 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
Merck99.210.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.200.00
3M98.430.00
TIAA-CREF98.430.00
Johnson &​ Johnson97.660.00
Chevron97.620.00
Hewlett-Packard97.600.00
General Electric96.8076.80
Aetna95.280.00
Boeing94.530.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes94.497.87
Wells Fargo93.750.78
United Parcel Servic​e92.910.00
Motorola92.190.00
Exxon Mobil90.400.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos89.680.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices89.600.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings87.880.00
Dow Chemical87.500.00
American Express86.400.00
Johnson Controls83.330.00
Deere81.750.00
Pfizer80.310.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns79.530.00
Cardinal Health79.201.60
PepsiCo79.200.00
Wellpoint76.790.00
Sprint Nextel75.200.00
Wal-Mart Stores74.600.00
Tyson Foods74.020.00
Walgreen71.650.00
Target68.800.00
Bank of America Corp​.68.000.00
Prudential Financial​67.720.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.61.420.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns61.420.00
Caremark Rx61.110.00
Washington Mutual60.160.00
Cisco Systems59.380.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.51.590.00
Intel50.000.00
Ford Motor48.820.00
General Dynamics48.440.00
Costco Wholesale46.030.00
Delphi45.600.00
General Motors44.530.00
Citigroup34.402.40
Merrill Lynch33.600.00
Wachovia Corp.29.920.00
DuPont20.800.00
Dell20.000.00
AmerisourceBergen17.970.00
Morgan Stanley17.600.00
FedEx11.900.00
Countrywide Financia​l11.020.00
ConocoPhillips8.800.00
Allstate7.940.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es7.940.00
Raytheon7.140.00
Northrop Grumman6.400.00
Honeywell Intl.6.350.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group5.600.00
MetLife5.600.00
Microsoft3.970.00
UnitedHealth Group3.940.79
International Paper3.940.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd3.120.00
AT&​T2.400.80
Home Depot2.400.00
Goldman Sachs Group1.600.00
Marathon Oil1.600.00
New York Life Insura​nce1.600.00
Time Warner1.600.00
Caterpillar1.590.00
Comcast1.590.00
Sysco1.590.00
Lowe's1.560.00
Ingram Micro1.140.00
McKesson0.800.00
Sears Holdings0.800.00
Freddie Mac0.790.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
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
  • Lehman Brothers Holdings
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Alcoa
  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  • Sunoco
  • 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

16.6% 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
91.31%
file/url/badpath
None
2.69%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.87%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.95%
file/url/offtop
None
0.83%
file/html/notitle
None
0.57%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.27%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
0.25%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.24%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
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
42.83%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
38.40%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.74%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.11%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.31%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.21%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.90%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.20%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.65%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.23%