November 2008/Fortune 100



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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 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
CVS Caremark99.210.00
Chevron99.210.00
Dow Chemical99.210.00
Coca-Cola99.200.00
News Corp.98.430.00
Wells Fargo97.660.78
Abbott Laboratories97.640.00
Goldman Sachs Group97.620.00
General Electric97.6059.20
Fannie Mae96.830.00
International Busine​ss Machines96.033.97
Lockheed Martin96.030.00
United Parcel Servic​e96.030.00
Boeing94.530.00
Cardinal Health94.400.00
TIAA-CREF94.400.00
Aetna93.600.00
Motorola92.130.00
Exxon Mobil92.060.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos.92.060.00
Supervalu90.480.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices90.400.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings84.800.80
3M83.460.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance81.250.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns80.800.00
Hewlett-Packard80.160.00
Johnson Controls79.840.00
Walgreen76.980.00
PepsiCo76.190.00
Wellpoint73.980.00
Walt Disney72.870.00
Tyson Foods71.200.00
Bank of America Corp​.70.630.00
Intel70.080.79
Pfizer69.530.00
Sprint Nextel65.871.59
Prudential Financial​65.600.00
Ford Motor61.110.00
Washington Mutual59.690.00
Costco Wholesale58.400.00
Johnson &​ Johnson52.340.00
Citigroup44.8026.40
General Motors43.201.60
American Express42.860.00
Wal-Mart Stores37.010.00
Merrill Lynch36.800.00
General Dynamics36.510.00
Cisco Systems35.710.00
Home Depot29.600.00
UnitedHealth Group25.600.00
Kroger25.200.00
Wachovia Corp.24.600.00
Morgan Stanley21.600.80
Medco Health Solutio​ns20.160.00
Dell18.600.00
Microsoft18.400.00
Safeway17.600.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.11.900.00
FedEx11.110.00
MetLife11.020.00
Northrop Grumman10.400.00
AmerisourceBergen8.800.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group8.000.00
Freddie Mac7.870.00
ConocoPhillips6.400.00
Macy's6.350.00
Marathon Oil5.601.60
DuPont5.080.00
AT&​T4.001.60
Lowe's4.000.80
Sysco3.970.00
Allstate3.200.00
Comcast3.170.00
Sears Holdings3.153.15
Travelers Cos.3.150.00
GMAC2.400.00
Humana2.400.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd2.360.00
Time Warner2.360.00
United Technologies1.600.00
Kraft Foods1.590.00
Caterpillar0.800.00
Sunoco0.790.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
Delphi0.000.00
Enterprise GP Holdin​gs0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
McKesson0.000.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.000.00
Target0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • Marathon Oil
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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
  • Delphi
  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Target
  • Valero Energy
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • American International Group
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Hess
  • Honeywell International
  • Procter & Gamble
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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.

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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%
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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%