February 2008/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 Feb 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    66,534

  • Total tests run:

    21,652,124

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,099

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.02%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.44%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.39%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    54.98%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.15%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - 240,430 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
Chevron100.000.00
Lockheed Martin100.000.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.200.00
Wells Fargo98.450.00
Merck98.400.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos97.620.00
General Electric96.8565.35
Hewlett-Packard96.830.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes96.807.20
Aetna96.030.00
3M95.240.00
Johnson &​ Johnson94.440.00
United Parcel Servic​e94.440.00
TIAA-CREF93.600.00
Goldman Sachs Group93.020.00
American Express92.910.00
Exxon Mobil92.000.00
Motorola91.340.00
Boeing90.550.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices89.680.00
News Corp.89.600.00
Cardinal Health88.891.59
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings88.570.00
Deere88.280.00
Dow Chemical87.300.00
Walgreen85.710.00
Johnson Controls83.590.00
PepsiCo80.800.00
Pfizer78.570.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns77.780.00
Wellpoint77.190.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns75.400.00
Tyson Foods73.020.00
Wal-Mart Stores70.870.00
Target70.630.00
Prudential Financial​69.840.00
Bank of America Corp​.69.290.00
Cisco Systems63.490.00
Washington Mutual59.840.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.58.590.00
General Dynamics51.180.00
Caremark Rx50.780.00
General Motors48.800.80
Delphi47.200.00
Intel45.310.00
Costco Wholesale42.860.00
Dell41.600.00
Sprint Nextel40.000.00
Lowe's39.370.00
Ford Motor38.890.00
Merrill Lynch33.330.00
Citigroup32.000.80
Kroger31.500.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.30.160.00
DuPont20.630.00
Morgan Stanley18.400.80
Wachovia Corp.14.060.00
AmerisourceBergen12.700.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.400.00
FedEx9.520.00
Northrop Grumman8.000.00
ConocoPhillips7.870.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group7.200.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es7.090.00
Raytheon6.400.00
UnitedHealth Group6.350.00
Honeywell Intl.5.600.00
Microsoft4.800.00
MetLife3.940.00
Comcast3.200.00
Marathon Oil2.400.00
Allstate1.600.00
Home Depot1.600.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd1.590.00
International Paper1.590.00
Sysco1.590.00
Time Warner1.570.00
Sears Holdings1.550.78
AT&​T0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Sunoco0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
Freddie Mac0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
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
  • Freddie Mac
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • 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
93.08%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.92%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.02%
file/url/badpath
None
0.97%
file/url/offtop
None
0.82%
file/html/notitle
None
0.55%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.29%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.22%
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
41.34%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
40.90%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
5.95%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
2.93%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.49%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.02%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.86%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.06%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.83%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue
A value has been assigned to an attribute which takes no value
0.20%