May 2008/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    12 May 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    69,371

  • Total tests run:

    22,581,013

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,363

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    4.06%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.29%

  • Pages missing a title:

    3.06%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    53.45%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.25%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - 246,608 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
Lockheed Martin100.000.00
CVS Caremark99.210.00
Berkshire Hathaway99.200.00
Chevron98.430.00
News Corp.98.410.00
3M96.900.00
Abbott Laboratories96.830.00
Goldman Sachs Group96.090.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos.95.310.00
Boeing95.240.00
Aetna95.200.00
United Parcel Servic​e95.200.00
General Electric94.4958.27
Wells Fargo94.440.00
International Busine​ss Machines94.405.60
Supervalu93.980.00
Fannie Mae93.600.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices92.800.00
Motorola92.190.00
Dow Chemical90.400.00
Exxon Mobil88.890.00
Hewlett-Packard88.890.00
American Express88.190.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns88.100.00
Cardinal Health82.400.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings81.750.00
Johnson Controls81.100.00
PepsiCo80.950.00
Intel79.370.00
TIAA-CREF77.950.00
Wellpoint77.190.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns76.800.00
Pfizer75.400.00
Walgreen74.400.00
Tyson Foods74.020.00
Delphi71.650.00
Prudential Financial​71.200.00
Bank of America Corp​.67.200.00
Cisco Systems65.080.00
Wal-Mart Stores62.700.00
Target62.400.00
Sprint Nextel61.600.00
Washington Mutual57.480.00
General Motors50.400.80
Costco Wholesale50.000.00
Ford Motor49.600.00
General Dynamics48.410.00
Citigroup44.440.79
Dell44.000.00
Wachovia Corp.36.800.00
Kroger33.330.00
Johnson &​ Johnson32.560.00
Merrill Lynch32.540.00
Travelers Cos.30.710.00
Home Depot20.000.00
DuPont19.200.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.12.000.00
Northrop Grumman11.810.00
FedEx11.200.00
UnitedHealth Group11.020.79
MetLife11.020.00
Morgan Stanley10.320.79
Microsoft10.240.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group9.520.00
ConocoPhillips8.800.00
AmerisourceBergen8.730.00
Macy's5.470.00
Humana3.200.00
Sysco3.200.00
Comcast3.150.00
Time Warner2.400.00
AT&​T2.380.00
Allstate1.600.00
Freddie Mac1.600.00
Kraft Foods1.600.00
Marathon Oil1.600.00
GMAC1.590.00
Lowe's0.800.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.800.00
McKesson0.800.00
United Technologies0.800.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
Sears Holdings0.780.78
Archer Daniels Midla​nd0.780.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
Enterprise GP Holdin​gs0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Altria Group
  • Enterprise GP 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
  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Sunoco
  • Valero Energy
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • American International Group
  • Coca-Cola
  • Walt Disney
  • Hess
  • Honeywell International
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

14.7% 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
92.63%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
2.02%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.16%
file/url/offtop
None
0.89%
file/url/badpath
None
0.69%
file/html/notitle
None
0.69%
url/mail/exception
Exception while verifying email address
0.44%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.31%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.26%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.22%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.77%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
42.41%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
4.41%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
2.82%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.16%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
1.91%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.24%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.03%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.65%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.22%