January 2008/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 Jan 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,019

  • Total tests run:

    22,135,815

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,140

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.67%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    91.00%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.19%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    55.86%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.01%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 220,153 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
State Farm Insurance​ Cos99.200.00
3M98.410.00
Chevron98.410.00
Wells Fargo97.670.00
Merck97.620.00
Hewlett-Packard97.600.00
General Electric96.9075.19
Johnson &​ Johnson95.350.00
Aetna95.240.00
United Parcel Servic​e94.440.00
Boeing92.190.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes92.137.87
American Express92.000.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices91.200.00
Exxon Mobil90.550.00
Dow Chemical90.480.00
Cardinal Health89.600.80
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings88.570.00
Walgreen88.000.00
TIAA-CREF87.200.00
Johnson Controls85.710.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns85.040.00
Deere83.200.00
Prudential Financial​80.950.00
PepsiCo79.370.00
Sprint Nextel78.570.00
Wellpoint76.990.00
Wal-Mart Stores74.800.00
Tyson Foods71.430.00
Target70.630.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns69.840.00
Bank of America Corp​.69.050.00
Intel69.050.00
Cisco Systems66.930.00
Pfizer65.600.00
Caremark Rx60.630.00
Motorola58.910.00
General Motors49.210.00
Delphi48.410.00
Costco Wholesale45.600.00
Lowe's44.800.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.43.310.00
Washington Mutual38.890.00
Citigroup34.132.38
Merrill Lynch33.600.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.32.540.00
Ford Motor32.280.00
General Dynamics31.500.00
Kroger25.980.00
Dell24.800.00
DuPont24.800.00
Home Depot23.020.00
Wachovia Corp.22.050.00
Morgan Stanley15.200.80
UnitedHealth Group13.601.60
FedEx13.390.00
Countrywide Financia​l9.600.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group9.520.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es7.200.00
Northrop Grumman7.200.00
AmerisourceBergen7.030.00
ConocoPhillips6.400.00
Raytheon6.400.00
Goldman Sachs Group5.600.00
Honeywell Intl.5.560.00
Microsoft4.720.00
MetLife4.000.00
International Paper3.200.00
Comcast3.170.00
Allstate1.600.00
Marathon Oil1.600.00
Sysco1.590.00
Time Warner1.560.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
Sears Holdings0.790.79
Freddie Mac0.790.00
Halliburton0.790.00
Caterpillar0.780.00
AT&​T0.000.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd0.000.00
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.

  • Federated Dept. Stores
  • Lehman Brothers Holdings
  • Sunoco
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Archer Daniels Midland
  • Alcoa
  • Altria Group
  • AT&T
  • 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

13.0% 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
91.12%
file/url/badpath
None
3.40%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.78%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
0.92%
file/url/offtop
None
0.76%
file/html/notitle
None
0.50%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.27%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.24%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.14%
file/url/badscheme
None
0.13%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
40.18%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
39.71%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
6.66%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.24%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.73%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.37%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.32%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.16%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.82%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
0.36%