August 2008/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
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 accessibility level AA:
98.99%
- Poorest code quality:
Target (http://www.target.com/) - 246,720 failures
- Fastest average response time:
News Corp. (http://www.newscorp.com/)
Accessibility and Performance rankings
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chevron | 100.00 | 0.78 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| News Corp. | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 96.85 | 78.74 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| 3M | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| International Business Machines | 96.00 | 3.20 |
| Dow Chemical | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| Aetna | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Boeing | 94.44 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 93.75 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Fannie Mae | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 91.20 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 88.89 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 87.30 | 0.00 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 87.20 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Controls | 86.05 | 0.00 |
| Verizon Communications | 80.31 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings | 77.60 | 0.00 |
| Wellpoint | 77.59 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Tyson Foods | 74.60 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Prudential Financial | 68.80 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 67.19 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 66.67 | 0.00 |
| Target | 64.29 | 0.00 |
| Delphi | 63.57 | 0.00 |
| Washington Mutual | 62.02 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 58.73 | 1.59 |
| Dell | 58.27 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 54.26 | 0.00 |
| General Motors | 53.12 | 2.34 |
| American Express | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 45.24 | 0.00 |
| Ford Motor | 44.09 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| General Dynamics | 40.80 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38.58 | 0.00 |
| Kroger | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 30.16 | 0.79 |
| Merrill Lynch | 30.16 | 0.00 |
| Home Depot | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 23.26 | 0.00 |
| DuPont | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| Microsoft | 11.02 | 0.79 |
| Northrop Grumman | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 9.30 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 7.14 | 0.00 |
| ConocoPhillips | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 3.20 | 1.60 |
| Sysco | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Travelers Cos. | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Humana | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Lowe's | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Kraft Foods | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Comcast | 1.56 | 0.00 |
| United Technologies | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 0.79 | 0.79 |
| Caterpillar | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Alcoa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Altria Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Best Buy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Enterprise GP Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| HCA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ingram Micro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| McKesson | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sunoco | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Valero Energy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- Macy's
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
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
- McKesson
- New York Life Insurance
- Sunoco
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Coca-Cola
- Walt Disney
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Procter & Gamble
- Safeway
PDF testing
15.9% 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.
Top ten functional failures
The most common categories of functional failure.
| file/url/badquery None |
89.61% |
| file/url/badpath None |
3.79% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.56% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.06% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.76% |
| file/url/offtop None |
0.68% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.62% |
| url/mail/badsmtp Mail server returned unexpected response |
0.53% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.29% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.22% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
42.52% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
42.17% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
5.40% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.54% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.93% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.77% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.44% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.98% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.64% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.22% |