April 2008/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 Apr 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,550

  • Total tests run:

    22,635,340

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,215

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.02%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.32%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.35%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    54.82%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.25%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 227,831 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
Berkshire Hathaway98.410.00
Chevron98.410.00
Merck98.410.00
News Corp.98.400.00
Johnson &​ Johnson96.880.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos96.830.00
General Electric96.8057.60
Goldman Sachs Group96.030.00
3M95.310.00
Aetna95.280.00
United Parcel Servic​e94.440.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes94.408.00
Boeing93.650.00
Wells Fargo92.250.00
Cardinal Health92.060.00
Exxon Mobil92.000.00
Dow Chemical91.340.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices90.480.00
Hewlett-Packard89.680.00
American Express89.600.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns88.000.00
Johnson Controls87.500.00
Deere85.830.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings81.890.00
Walgreen81.890.00
PepsiCo80.800.00
Motorola78.120.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns78.120.00
TIAA-CREF77.600.00
Wellpoint77.390.00
Pfizer75.000.00
Tyson Foods72.800.00
Prudential Financial​70.400.00
Bank of America Corp​.66.400.00
Target64.800.00
Cisco Systems64.570.00
Sprint Nextel62.700.00
Wal-Mart Stores57.140.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.57.030.00
Caremark Rx56.000.00
General Motors54.760.79
Dell54.330.00
Costco Wholesale50.400.00
Washington Mutual45.740.00
Delphi44.000.00
Intel43.650.00
Kroger35.200.00
Ford Motor33.330.00
Merrill Lynch32.800.00
Citigroup31.500.79
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.31.250.00
General Dynamics29.600.00
Home Depot22.830.00
Wachovia Corp.22.220.00
DuPont20.000.00
FedEx17.600.00
Raytheon15.200.00
UnitedHealth Group11.110.79
Countrywide Financia​l11.020.00
MetLife10.400.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group9.450.00
ConocoPhillips8.800.00
Morgan Stanley8.730.79
Allstate8.000.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es8.000.00
AmerisourceBergen7.940.00
Microsoft7.750.00
Honeywell Intl.7.200.80
Northrop Grumman5.600.00
AT&​T3.200.00
Marathon Oil3.200.00
Sysco3.150.00
Time Warner2.400.00
International Paper2.380.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd2.330.00
Comcast1.600.00
Lowe's1.590.00
Sunoco0.800.00
United Technologies0.800.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Freddie Mac0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.790.00
Sears Holdings0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Federated Dept. Stores
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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
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • New York Life Insurance
  • 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

13.7% 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
93.10%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
2.00%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.22%
file/url/offtop
None
0.65%
file/url/badpath
None
0.61%
file/html/notitle
None
0.54%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
0.35%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.31%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.26%
file/url/badscheme
None
0.20%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.21%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
41.86%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
4.78%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
2.72%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.13%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
2.05%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
2.00%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.01%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.61%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.28%