December 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    12 Dec 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,942

  • Total tests run:

    22,434,828

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,103

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.89%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.54%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.37%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    55.32%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.01%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 223,382 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 Hathaway99.200.00
Merck99.200.00
Wells Fargo98.440.00
3M98.410.00
Hewlett-Packard97.620.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos97.620.00
Johnson &​ Johnson96.880.00
General Electric96.8575.59
Chevron96.800.00
Exxon Mobil95.240.00
Aetna95.200.00
Motorola93.750.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes93.608.80
Boeing92.970.00
Cardinal Health92.131.57
Dow Chemical91.200.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices90.400.00
United Parcel Servic​e90.400.00
American Express89.600.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings87.880.00
Deere85.600.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns85.600.00
Johnson Controls84.250.00
TIAA-CREF83.330.00
Walgreen81.600.00
Wellpoint76.990.00
PepsiCo75.200.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns75.200.00
Prudential Financial​74.800.00
Intel74.020.00
Wal-Mart Stores73.810.00
Sprint Nextel70.400.00
Bank of America Corp​.69.050.00
Target67.460.00
Tyson Foods66.140.00
Cisco Systems64.340.00
Pfizer60.940.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.59.380.00
General Dynamics57.600.00
General Motors53.970.79
Washington Mutual53.120.00
Delphi50.790.00
Caremark Rx48.820.00
Dell48.000.00
Costco Wholesale40.800.00
Ford Motor37.600.00
Merrill Lynch33.600.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.32.810.00
Citigroup31.751.59
Kroger29.370.00
DuPont26.980.00
Home Depot20.470.00
Wachovia Corp.19.050.00
Morgan Stanley16.670.00
AmerisourceBergen12.500.00
Goldman Sachs Group11.200.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group11.200.00
FedEx10.940.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.400.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es9.520.00
ConocoPhillips8.800.00
Allstate8.000.00
Northrop Grumman7.870.00
Honeywell Intl.6.350.00
Raytheon5.560.00
UnitedHealth Group4.000.80
MetLife4.000.00
AT&​T3.200.80
Marathon Oil3.200.00
Comcast3.150.00
International Paper2.380.00
Lowe's1.600.00
Microsoft1.590.00
Sysco1.590.00
Time Warner1.590.00
Freddie Mac0.800.00
Halliburton0.800.00
Altria Group0.790.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Sears Holdings0.790.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd0.780.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
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.

  • Lehman Brothers Holdings
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Alcoa
  • Best Buy
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  • McKesson
  • 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
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

12.8% 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
93.12%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.97%
file/url/badpath
None
1.10%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.97%
file/url/offtop
None
0.61%
file/html/notitle
None
0.55%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.30%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.23%
file/url/badscheme
None
0.18%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.17%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
40.39%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
39.96%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.35%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.06%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.71%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.32%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.30%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.15%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.92%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
0.35%