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Fortune 100 August 2008

Error free sites

  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • Macy's

Failing A & AA on every page

  • Alcoa
  • Altria Group
  • Best Buy
  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  • McKesson
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Sunoco
  • Valero Energy

Excluded from index

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

Index facts

Sites tested: 13 Aug 2008
Total URLs tested: 71,318
Total tests run: 23,206,456
Total number of PDF's: 1,081
URLs failing functional tests: 4.29
Pages failing code standards: 88.28
Pages missing a title: 3.54
Pages failing accessibility level A: 54.45
Pages failing acessibility level AA: 54.45
Poorest code quality: Target (http://www.target.com/) - 246,720 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.

15.9% of checked PDF's passed accessibility tests

Top ten functional failures

Total
file/url/badquery 89.61%
file/url/badpath 3.79%
url/fetch/badcookie 1.56%
url/fetch/notfound 1.06%
file/html/notitle 0.76%
file/url/offtop 0.68%
url/fetch/unknownstatus 0.62%
url/mail/badsmtp 0.53%
url/fetch/noaddr 0.29%
file/html/badmeta 0.22%

Top ten code quality failures

Total
file/html/badentity 42.52%
file/html/unknownentity 42.17%
file/html/tagnotallowed 5.40%
file/html/badattr 2.54%
file/html/closingunopened 1.93%
file/html/badvalue 1.77%
file/html/unknowntag 1.44%
file/html/missingclose 0.98%
file/html/unnecessaryclose 0.64%
file/html/repeatedattr 0.22%