October 2008/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
14 Oct 2008
- Total URLs tested:
68,668
- Total tests run:
22,343,646
- Total number of PDF's:
1,021
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.28%
- Pages failing code standards:
89.80%
- Pages missing a title:
3.93%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
54.30%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.78%
- Poorest code quality:
Target (http://www.target.com/) - 246,873 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aetna | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Chevron | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| News Corp. | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Coca-Cola | 98.28 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 97.66 | 0.00 |
| Dow Chemical | 97.64 | 0.00 |
| 3M | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 96.85 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 96.83 | 82.54 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 96.09 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Fannie Mae | 96.00 | 0.00 |
| International Business Machines | 95.20 | 3.20 |
| Boeing | 94.53 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 93.80 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 93.60 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 92.80 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 92.00 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 91.27 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 89.60 | 0.00 |
| Verizon Communications | 86.82 | 0.00 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings | 85.71 | 0.79 |
| Johnson Controls | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 84.92 | 0.79 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 83.72 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 80.95 | 0.00 |
| Walt Disney | 74.60 | 0.79 |
| Tyson Foods | 73.81 | 0.00 |
| Wellpoint | 73.77 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 71.43 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 68.75 | 0.00 |
| Prudential Financial | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Target | 65.60 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 64.57 | 1.57 |
| Washington Mutual | 60.47 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 59.84 | 0.00 |
| General Motors | 54.40 | 0.00 |
| Ford Motor | 54.33 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch | 53.97 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 53.12 | 0.00 |
| American Express | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 51.56 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 45.74 | 0.00 |
| Costco Wholesale | 42.40 | 0.00 |
| General Dynamics | 38.58 | 0.00 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 33.59 | 0.00 |
| Home Depot | 31.75 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 31.50 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 28.00 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 27.56 | 18.90 |
| Kroger | 26.77 | 0.00 |
| Dell | 21.26 | 0.00 |
| Microsoft | 17.19 | 0.00 |
| Safeway | 15.08 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 13.49 | 0.00 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 13.39 | 0.00 |
| Northrop Grumman | 12.00 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 11.11 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 10.08 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 8.80 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 8.73 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 6.40 | 1.60 |
| ConocoPhillips | 6.35 | 0.00 |
| DuPont | 5.08 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 4.80 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Travelers Cos. | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 3.12 | 2.34 |
| Humana | 3.12 | 0.00 |
| Comcast | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Sysco | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 2.34 | 0.00 |
| Lowe's | 1.59 | 0.79 |
| Kraft Foods | 1.59 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 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 |
| New York Life Insurance | 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.
- 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
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Procter & Gamble
PDF testing
26.8% 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 |
92.97% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.46% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.04% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.89% |
| file/url/badpath None |
0.80% |
| file/url/offtop None |
0.71% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
0.51% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.31% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.29% |
| url/mail/exception Exception while verifying email address |
0.22% |
Top ten code quality failures
The most common categories of code quality failure.
| file/html/badentity Invalid character in entity |
41.31% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
40.88% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
5.44% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.73% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.26% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
2.01% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.77% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
1.15% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.75% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.26% |