January 2009/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
16 Jan 2009
- Total URLs tested:
75,138
- Total tests run:
24,455,938
- Total number of PDF's:
1,388
- URLs failing functional tests:
2.24%
- Pages failing code standards:
90.16%
- Pages missing a title:
3.91%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
56.35%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.87%
- Poorest code quality:
Costco Wholesale (http://www.costco.com/) - 386,317 failures
- Fastest average response time:
Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.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 |
|---|---|---|
| International Business Machines | 100.00 | 9.60 |
| Coca-Cola | 100.00 | 2.52 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Chevron | 100.00 | 0.00 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 98.40 | 2.40 |
| News Corp. | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 97.60 | 56.00 |
| Aetna | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 96.00 | 2.40 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| Fannie Mae | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| 3M | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Boeing | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Dow Chemical | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 88.00 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 82.40 | 0.80 |
| Verizon Communications | 80.00 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 79.20 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 78.40 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Controls | 73.60 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 72.80 | 0.80 |
| Wellpoint | 70.91 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Tyson Foods | 70.40 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 65.60 | 1.60 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Target | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Washington Mutual | 60.00 | 0.00 |
| Prudential Financial | 59.20 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 58.40 | 0.00 |
| Ford Motor | 56.00 | 0.00 |
| Lowe's | 53.60 | 0.80 |
| Merrill Lynch | 52.80 | 0.00 |
| Walt Disney | 52.00 | 0.80 |
| General Dynamics | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 50.40 | 0.00 |
| Procter & Gamble | 47.20 | 1.60 |
| American Express | 44.80 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 44.00 | 24.00 |
| General Motors | 37.60 | 0.80 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 30.40 | 0.00 |
| Kroger | 28.80 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 24.80 | 0.00 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 24.00 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 21.60 | 0.00 |
| Dell | 20.80 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 17.60 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Microsoft | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| Safeway | 9.60 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| ConocoPhillips | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| Northrop Grumman | 7.20 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 5.60 | 1.60 |
| DuPont | 5.08 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 4.80 | 0.80 |
| Sysco | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Comcast | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Home Depot | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Travelers Cos. | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Humana | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Kraft Foods | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| United Technologies | 0.80 | 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 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 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.
- Abbott Laboratories
- Archer Daniels Midland
- Altria Group
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- Freddie Mac
- Johnson & Johnson
- Johnson Controls
- Macy's
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
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
- Medco Health Solutions
- New York Life Insurance
- PepsiCo
- Sears Holdings
- Sunoco
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Lehman Brothers Holdings
PDF testing
18.6% 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.
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
42.85% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
33.07% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
8.28% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
5.27% |
| url/fetch/exception Exception while downloading file |
4.77% |
| file/html/noframes A <frameset> tag was found, but no <noframes> |
1.20% |
| url/fetch/accessdenied Access is denied |
1.10% |
| url/fetch/timeout Timeout downloading file |
0.95% |
| url/fetch/noeoh No end-of-headers found in HTTP response |
0.75% |
| url/fetch/badstatus Bad HTTP status returned by server |
0.60% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
42.94% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
39.90% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
4.03% |
| file/url/badquery Illegal character in URL query section |
3.09% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
2.78% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.80% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
1.76% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.73% |
| 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 |
0.51% |