May 2007/Fortune 100



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INDEX Facts

  • Completed date:

    11 May 2007

  • Total URLs tested:

    60,483

  • Total tests run:

    19,685,081

  • Total number of PDF's:

    1,081

  • URLs failing functional tests:

    3.84%

  • Pages failing code standards:

    90.89%

  • Pages missing a title:

    1.97%

  • Pages failing accessibility level A:

    59.60%

  • Pages failing accessibility level AA:

    99.94%

  • Poorest code quality:

    Target (http://www.target.com/) - 145,539 failures

  • Fastest average response time:

    Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.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)
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Organisation A AA
Merck100.000.00
News Corp.100.000.00
Intl. Business Machi​nes99.200.00
Berkshire Hathaway98.400.00
Chevron97.620.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos97.620.00
Boeing96.090.00
General Electric95.240.00
Hewlett-Packard95.200.00
Lockheed Martin94.490.00
Johnson &​ Johnson94.440.00
Aetna94.400.00
United Parcel Servic​e92.130.00
3M91.340.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings91.300.00
Pfizer89.760.00
Johnson Controls88.800.00
Dow Chemical86.610.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns85.710.00
Motorola85.710.00
Wellpoint84.000.00
American Express83.460.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns81.250.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices80.160.00
Wal-Mart Stores78.400.00
Bank of America Corp​.75.590.00
PepsiCo75.200.00
Prudential Financial​75.200.00
Tyson Foods74.020.00
Sprint Nextel73.602.40
Deere73.600.00
FedEx72.800.00
Wells Fargo71.430.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.64.290.00
Cisco Systems64.060.00
The Travelers Compan​ies, Inc.60.630.00
TIAA-CREF59.200.00
Intel53.910.00
General Dynamics51.590.00
CVS/​Caremark48.000.00
Caremark Rx47.620.00
Merrill Lynch38.890.00
Dell38.100.00
Marathon Oil37.600.00
Cardinal Health35.710.79
Citigroup28.570.79
Washington Mutual18.250.00
DuPont17.460.00
General Motors14.840.00
Morgan Stanley14.400.00
Wachovia Corp.14.290.00
Countrywide Financia​l10.400.00
UnitedHealth Group10.160.78
Northrop Grumman7.200.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd7.090.00
Honeywell Intl.6.400.00
Raytheon6.400.00
Lowe's5.560.00
Walgreen3.970.00
Comcast3.200.00
Allstate3.170.00
International Paper3.170.00
Exxon Mobil3.150.00
Microsoft3.150.00
Federated Dept. Stor​es2.400.00
Goldman Sachs Group2.400.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group2.400.00
Sysco1.600.00
Freddie Mac1.590.00
Sears Holdings0.800.80
Costco Wholesale0.800.00
New York Life Insura​nce0.800.00
Altria Group0.790.00
AmerisourceBergen0.790.00
Caterpillar0.790.00
McKesson0.790.00
Time Warner0.790.00
Delphi0.780.00
Home Depot0.780.00
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance0.780.00
AT&​T0.000.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
ConocoPhillips0.000.00
HCA0.000.00
Halliburton0.000.00
Ingram Micro0.000.00
Sunoco0.000.00
Target0.000.00
United Technologies0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Halliburton
  • Sunoco
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Failing A & AA on every page

The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.

  • Alcoa
  • AT&T
  • Best Buy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Halliburton
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • Sunoco
  • Target
  • United Technologies
  • Valero Energy
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

  • American Intl. Group
  • Coca-Cola
  • Walt Disney
  • Ford Motor
  • Hess
  • Kroger
  • MetLife
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Safeway
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PDF testing

11.6% 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.

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Top ten functional failures

The most common categories of functional failure.

file/url/badquery
None
53.82%
file/url/badpath
None
9.38%
url/fetch/badcookie
Web server attempted to set invalid cookie
8.33%
url/mail/badsmtp
Mail server returned unexpected response
5.86%
url/fetch/notfound
File not found
5.25%
file/html/notitle
None
3.22%
url/fetch/noaddr
Host not found in DNS
2.65%
file/url/offtop
None
2.52%
file/html/badmeta
None
2.38%
file/url/badscheme
None
1.25%
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Top ten code quality failures

The most common categories of code quality failure.

file/html/badentity
Invalid character in entity
38.85%
file/html/unknownentity
Unknown entity name
37.07%
file/html/tagnotallowed
A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear
7.75%
file/html/badattr
Invalid attribute name
3.70%
file/html/unknowntag
A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised
3.67%
file/html/closingunopened
A redundant close tag was found
3.11%
file/html/badvalue
Invalid attribute value
2.99%
file/html/missingclose
An element is missing the required close tag
1.50%
file/html/unnecessaryclose
An end tag was found for an element which does not require one
0.61%
file/html/repeatedattr
A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once
0.25%