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Fortune 100 March 2008

Error free sites

  • Federated Dept. Stores

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Alcoa
  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • Freddie Mac
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • United Technologies
  • Valero Energy

Excluded from index

  • American Intl. Group
  • Coca-Cola
  • Walt Disney
  • Hess
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
  • Wellpoint

Index facts

Sites tested: 10 Mar 2008
Total URLs tested: 64,818
Total tests run: 21,091,954
Total number of PDF's: 1,004
URLs failing functional tests: 3.91
Pages failing code standards: 90.52
Pages missing a title: 2.31
Pages failing accessibility level A: 55.55
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 55.55
Poorest code quality: Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - 241,634 failures
Fastest overall average response time: News Corp. (http://www.newscorp.com/)

PDF testing

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.

12.3% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 93.07%
url/fetch/badcookie 2.17%
url/fetch/notfound 0.97%
file/url/offtop 0.96%
file/url/badpath 0.69%
file/html/notitle 0.53%
url/fetch/noaddr 0.25%
file/html/badmeta 0.23%
file/html/longtitle 0.20%
file/url/badscheme 0.17%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 41.29%
file/html/unknownentity 40.87%
file/html/tagnotallowed 5.49%
file/html/badattr 3.44%
file/html/badvalue 2.42%
file/html/unknowntag 2.02%
file/html/closingunopened 1.94%
file/html/missingclose 1.00%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.78%
file/html/unnecessaryvalue 0.33%

Surveys

First
Cleveland Police
Last
South Wales Police
Up 23
South Yorkshire Police
Down 38
Leicestershire Constabulary
First
University Campus Suffolk (UCS)
Last
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education (an Associate College of UEA)
Up 168
South Nottingham College
Down 162
The University of Salford