December 2008/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
10 Dec 2008
- Total URLs tested:
71,605
- Total tests run:
23,305,789
- Total number of PDF's:
1,314
- URLs failing functional tests:
3.85%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.46%
- Pages missing a title:
3.39%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
56.42%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.79%
- Poorest code quality:
Costco Wholesale (http://www.costco.com/) - 391,673 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 |
|---|---|---|
| News Corp. | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chevron | 99.22 | 0.00 |
| International Business Machines | 99.21 | 11.11 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Coca-Cola | 99.15 | 2.54 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 96.88 | 1.56 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 96.88 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 96.83 | 59.52 |
| Fannie Mae | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| 3M | 96.06 | 0.00 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Boeing | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 93.70 | 0.00 |
| Aetna | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 92.06 | 0.00 |
| Dow Chemical | 90.70 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 88.37 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 84.38 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 83.20 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 81.60 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 80.47 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Controls | 77.34 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 76.80 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 74.40 | 0.80 |
| Wellpoint | 73.98 | 0.00 |
| Tyson Foods | 71.43 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 70.63 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 68.25 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 65.87 | 1.59 |
| Motorola | 64.34 | 0.00 |
| Prudential Financial | 62.70 | 0.00 |
| Washington Mutual | 61.24 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 56.69 | 0.00 |
| General Motors | 54.40 | 3.20 |
| Verizon Communications | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 50.78 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 43.20 | 24.80 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 42.52 | 0.00 |
| Walt Disney | 42.40 | 0.80 |
| American Express | 41.60 | 0.00 |
| Dell | 40.62 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 40.16 | 0.00 |
| General Dynamics | 39.68 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch | 34.92 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 25.98 | 0.00 |
| Home Depot | 24.60 | 0.00 |
| Kroger | 21.88 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 15.20 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 11.81 | 0.00 |
| Northrop Grumman | 10.40 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 10.24 | 0.00 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 10.16 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| Safeway | 9.45 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 8.66 | 0.00 |
| ConocoPhillips | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| DuPont | 5.08 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 4.00 | 1.60 |
| AT&T | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Lowe's | 4.00 | 0.80 |
| Microsoft | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Sysco | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Travelers Cos. | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 3.15 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Humana | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 1.59 | 1.59 |
| Comcast | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| Kraft Foods | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| United Technologies | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Alcoa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Altria Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Best Buy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Caterpillar | 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 |
| Sunoco | 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
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Alcoa
- Altria Group
- Best Buy
- Caterpillar
- Delphi
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- HCA
- Ingram Micro
- McKesson
- New York Life Insurance
- Sunoco
- Target
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Ford Motor
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Lehman Brothers Holdings
- Procter & Gamble
PDF testing
17.2% 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 |
93.05% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.55% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.37% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.80% |
| file/url/badpath None |
0.74% |
| file/url/offtop None |
0.51% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.29% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.28% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.27% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.17% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
44.34% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.72% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
4.27% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
3.97% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.76% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.74% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.45% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.60% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.50% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.33% |