June 2008/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 Jun 2008

  • Total URLs tested:

    68,164

  • Total tests run:

    22,178,494

  • Total number of PDF's:

    969

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.92%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    88.98%

  • Pages missing a title:

    2.87%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    54.40%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.08%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - 247,069 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)
Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards
Organisation A AA
Berkshire Hathaway99.210.00
CVS Caremark99.210.00
Chevron98.430.00
Lockheed Martin98.410.00
News Corp.98.400.00
Abbott Laboratories97.600.00
Goldman Sachs Group96.850.00
General Electric96.8373.02
International Busine​ss Machines96.036.35
State Farm Insurance​ Cos.96.030.00
Boeing95.350.00
Hewlett-Packard95.240.00
Aetna95.200.00
Fannie Mae95.200.00
United Parcel Servic​e94.440.00
Wells Fargo93.750.78
3M93.700.00
Dow Chemical92.130.00
Exxon Mobil91.270.00
Supervalu90.480.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices88.190.00
TIAA-CREF87.300.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns86.510.00
Johnson Controls86.050.00
Cardinal Health85.710.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings81.750.00
Wellpoint77.190.00
Intel76.980.79
Tyson Foods76.800.00
PepsiCo76.000.00
Motorola75.780.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns74.020.00
Pfizer70.630.00
Delphi69.770.00
Prudential Financial​67.200.00
Bank of America Corp​.67.190.00
Target63.490.00
Walgreen63.490.00
Washington Mutual58.730.00
Sprint Nextel57.140.00
General Motors56.800.80
Cisco Systems52.000.00
Ford Motor49.220.00
Costco Wholesale48.800.00
Wal-Mart Stores48.030.00
General Dynamics43.650.00
Dell42.400.00
Citigroup36.800.80
American Express35.000.00
Kroger34.130.00
Merrill Lynch34.130.00
Travelers Cos.30.950.00
Johnson &​ Johnson30.230.00
UnitedHealth Group26.190.00
DuPont20.000.00
Home Depot17.600.00
Wachovia Corp.14.960.00
Microsoft14.400.00
Northrop Grumman11.200.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.11.110.00
Morgan Stanley10.400.00
MetLife10.240.00
AmerisourceBergen10.160.00
ConocoPhillips9.600.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group9.520.00
Macy's9.520.00
FedEx7.090.00
Marathon Oil4.760.00
Caterpillar4.000.00
Comcast3.970.00
Freddie Mac3.170.00
Sysco3.150.00
Time Warner2.400.00
GMAC1.600.00
Kraft Foods1.600.00
Lowe's1.600.00
Allstate1.590.00
Humana1.570.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd1.560.00
United Technologies0.800.00
AT&​T0.790.79
Alcoa0.790.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.790.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
Enterprise GP Holdin​gs0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.000.00
Sears Holdings0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • Sunoco
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Sears Holdings
  • 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

21.3% 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
92.99%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
1.92%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
1.08%
file/url/badpath
None
0.97%
file/url/offtop
None
0.92%
file/html/notitle
None
0.66%
url/fetch/unknownstatus
Unknown status code received from web server
0.37%
file/html/badmeta
None
0.24%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
0.23%
file/html/longtitle
None
0.12%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
42.70%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
42.35%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
4.51%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.10%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.14%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
1.76%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
1.14%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
0.97%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.74%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.22%