October 2008/Fortune 100



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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 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
Aetna99.200.00
CVS Caremark99.200.00
Chevron99.200.00
News Corp.99.200.00
Berkshire Hathaway98.400.00
Coca-Cola98.280.00
Wells Fargo97.660.00
Dow Chemical97.640.00
3M96.850.00
Abbott Laboratories96.850.00
General Electric96.8382.54
Lockheed Martin96.800.00
Goldman Sachs Group96.090.00
United Parcel Servic​e96.030.00
Fannie Mae96.000.00
International Busine​ss Machines95.203.20
Boeing94.530.00
Cardinal Health94.400.00
Motorola93.800.00
Hewlett-Packard93.600.00
Exxon Mobil92.800.00
State Farm Insurance​ Cos.92.000.00
Supervalu91.270.00
Hartford Financial S​ervices89.600.00
Verizon Communicatio​ns86.820.00
Lehman Brothers Hold​ings85.710.79
Johnson Controls85.160.00
TIAA-CREF84.920.79
Massachusetts Mutual​ Life Insurance83.720.00
PepsiCo80.950.00
Walt Disney74.600.79
Tyson Foods73.810.00
Wellpoint73.770.00
Intel71.430.00
Bank of America Corp​.68.750.00
Prudential Financial​65.600.00
Target65.600.00
Sprint Nextel64.571.57
Washington Mutual60.470.00
Cisco Systems59.840.00
General Motors54.400.00
Ford Motor54.330.00
Merrill Lynch53.970.00
Johnson &​ Johnson53.120.00
American Express52.630.00
Pfizer51.560.00
Walgreen45.740.00
Costco Wholesale42.400.00
General Dynamics38.580.00
Wachovia Corp.33.590.00
Home Depot31.750.00
Wal-Mart Stores31.500.00
UnitedHealth Group28.000.00
Citigroup27.5618.90
Kroger26.770.00
Dell21.260.00
Microsoft17.190.00
Safeway15.080.00
MetLife13.490.00
Medco Health Solutio​ns13.390.00
Northrop Grumman12.000.00
J.P. Morgan Chase &​ Co.11.900.00
Liberty Mutual Insur​ance Group11.110.00
FedEx10.080.00
AmerisourceBergen8.800.00
Freddie Mac8.730.00
Marathon Oil6.401.60
ConocoPhillips6.350.00
DuPont5.080.00
Macy's4.800.00
Allstate3.970.00
Travelers Cos.3.170.00
Sears Holdings3.122.34
Humana3.120.00
Comcast2.400.00
GMAC2.400.00
Sysco2.400.00
Morgan Stanley2.380.00
Time Warner2.380.00
Archer Daniels Midla​nd2.340.00
Lowe's1.590.79
Kraft Foods1.590.00
AT&​T0.800.00
United Technologies0.800.00
Alcoa0.000.00
Altria Group0.000.00
Best Buy0.000.00
Caterpillar0.000.00
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
Sunoco0.000.00
Valero Energy0.000.00
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Error free sites

The following sites scored full marks for Function.

  • Enterprise GP Holdings
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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
  • Caterpillar
  • Delphi
  • Enterprise GP Holdings
  • HCA
  • Ingram Micro
  • McKesson
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Sunoco
  • Valero Energy
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Excluded from INDEX

The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.

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

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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%
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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%