November 2008/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
17 Nov 2008
- Total URLs tested:
72,446
- Total tests run:
23,580,128
- Total number of PDF's:
1,353
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.13%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.08%
- Pages missing a title:
3.92%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
55.39%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.90%
- Poorest code quality:
Costco Wholesale (http://www.costco.com/) - 380,660 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CVS Caremark | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Chevron | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Dow Chemical | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| Coca-Cola | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| News Corp. | 98.43 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 97.66 | 0.78 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 97.62 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 97.60 | 59.20 |
| Fannie Mae | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| International Business Machines | 96.03 | 3.97 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Boeing | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Aetna | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 92.13 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 90.40 | 0.00 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings | 84.80 | 0.80 |
| 3M | 83.46 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 81.25 | 0.00 |
| Verizon Communications | 80.80 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 80.16 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Controls | 79.84 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 76.98 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 76.19 | 0.00 |
| Wellpoint | 73.98 | 0.00 |
| Walt Disney | 72.87 | 0.00 |
| Tyson Foods | 71.20 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 70.63 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 70.08 | 0.79 |
| Pfizer | 69.53 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 65.87 | 1.59 |
| Prudential Financial | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Ford Motor | 61.11 | 0.00 |
| Washington Mutual | 59.69 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 52.34 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 44.80 | 26.40 |
| General Motors | 43.20 | 1.60 |
| American Express | 42.86 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 37.01 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch | 36.80 | 0.00 |
| General Dynamics | 36.51 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 35.71 | 0.00 |
| Home Depot | 29.60 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 25.60 | 0.00 |
| Kroger | 25.20 | 0.00 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 24.60 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 21.60 | 0.80 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 20.16 | 0.00 |
| Dell | 18.60 | 0.00 |
| Microsoft | 18.40 | 0.00 |
| Safeway | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 11.02 | 0.00 |
| Northrop Grumman | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 8.00 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 7.87 | 0.00 |
| ConocoPhillips | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 5.60 | 1.60 |
| DuPont | 5.08 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 4.00 | 1.60 |
| Lowe's | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Sysco | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Comcast | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 3.15 | 3.15 |
| Travelers Cos. | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Humana | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| United Technologies | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Kraft Foods | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Caterpillar | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| Sunoco | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Alcoa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Altria Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Best Buy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Delphi | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Enterprise GP Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| HCA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ingram Micro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| McKesson | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Target | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Valero Energy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- Marathon Oil
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Alcoa
- Altria Group
- Best Buy
- Delphi
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- HCA
- Ingram Micro
- McKesson
- New York Life Insurance
- Target
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Procter & Gamble
PDF testing
18.2% 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 |
91.10% |
| file/url/offtop None |
1.56% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.55% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.37% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.04% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.94% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.38% |
| file/url/badauthority None |
0.34% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.31% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.30% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
44.35% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.91% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.14% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.78% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.94% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.70% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.43% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.57% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.54% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.31% |