September 2008/Fortune 100
INDEX Facts
- Completed date:
11 Sep 2008
- Total URLs tested:
69,545
- Total tests run:
22,635,691
- Total number of PDF's:
1,291
- URLs failing functional tests:
4.16%
- Pages failing code standards:
87.38%
- Pages missing a title:
3.51%
- Pages failing accessibility level A:
52.69%
- Pages failing accessibility level AA:
98.95%
- Poorest code quality:
Target (http://www.target.com/) - 253,360 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chevron | 100.00 | 0.79 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 99.21 | 0.00 |
| CVS Caremark | 99.20 | 0.00 |
| Coca-Cola | 98.41 | 0.00 |
| News Corp. | 98.40 | 0.00 |
| Wells Fargo | 97.66 | 0.78 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 97.60 | 0.00 |
| General Electric | 96.85 | 70.87 |
| 3M | 96.83 | 0.00 |
| International Business Machines | 96.80 | 4.00 |
| Fannie Mae | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Lockheed Martin | 96.80 | 0.00 |
| Goldman Sachs Group | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| State Farm Insurance Cos. | 96.03 | 0.00 |
| Boeing | 95.28 | 0.79 |
| Dow Chemical | 95.28 | 0.00 |
| Exxon Mobil | 95.24 | 0.00 |
| United Parcel Service | 95.20 | 0.00 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 94.40 | 0.00 |
| Aetna | 93.65 | 0.00 |
| Hartford Financial Services | 92.86 | 0.00 |
| Motorola | 91.41 | 0.00 |
| Supervalu | 90.48 | 0.00 |
| Medco Health Solutions | 88.80 | 0.00 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings | 85.16 | 0.00 |
| Cardinal Health | 84.80 | 1.60 |
| Verizon Communications | 81.75 | 0.00 |
| PepsiCo | 79.37 | 0.00 |
| Wellpoint | 77.39 | 0.00 |
| TIAA-CREF | 76.00 | 0.00 |
| Johnson Controls | 75.20 | 0.00 |
| Intel | 73.23 | 0.00 |
| Tyson Foods | 69.84 | 0.00 |
| Walgreen | 69.60 | 0.00 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 67.20 | 0.00 |
| Delphi | 66.93 | 0.00 |
| General Motors | 63.78 | 2.36 |
| Prudential Financial | 60.80 | 0.00 |
| Cisco Systems | 60.32 | 0.00 |
| Washington Mutual | 60.16 | 0.00 |
| Sprint Nextel | 58.40 | 1.60 |
| Target | 57.60 | 0.00 |
| Pfizer | 55.20 | 0.00 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 53.12 | 0.00 |
| American Express | 52.63 | 0.00 |
| Lowe's | 52.38 | 1.59 |
| Costco Wholesale | 52.00 | 0.00 |
| Merrill Lynch | 48.82 | 0.00 |
| General Dynamics | 46.83 | 0.00 |
| Dell | 44.53 | 0.00 |
| Ford Motor | 43.41 | 0.00 |
| Microsoft | 39.37 | 0.00 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | 37.01 | 0.00 |
| Kroger | 36.00 | 0.00 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 25.98 | 0.00 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 24.60 | 0.00 |
| Citigroup | 22.66 | 8.59 |
| Home Depot | 22.66 | 0.00 |
| AmerisourceBergen | 20.00 | 0.00 |
| DuPont | 19.20 | 0.00 |
| Freddie Mac | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 11.90 | 0.00 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| Northrop Grumman | 11.20 | 0.00 |
| MetLife | 10.32 | 0.00 |
| Macy's | 9.52 | 0.00 |
| FedEx | 7.94 | 0.00 |
| Morgan Stanley | 7.14 | 0.79 |
| ConocoPhillips | 6.40 | 0.00 |
| Marathon Oil | 5.60 | 1.60 |
| Comcast | 4.00 | 0.00 |
| Humana | 3.97 | 0.00 |
| Allstate | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Sysco | 3.20 | 0.00 |
| Travelers Cos. | 3.17 | 0.00 |
| Time Warner | 2.40 | 0.00 |
| GMAC | 2.36 | 0.00 |
| Kraft Foods | 1.60 | 0.00 |
| Caterpillar | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| United Technologies | 0.80 | 0.00 |
| AT&T | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Sunoco | 0.79 | 0.00 |
| Alcoa | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Altria Group | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Best Buy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Enterprise GP Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| HCA | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ingram Micro | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| McKesson | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| New York Life Insurance | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sears Holdings | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Valero Energy | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Error free sites
The following sites scored full marks for Function.
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- Macy's
- Sunoco
Failing A & AA on every page
The following sites failed high priority tests on every page.
- Alcoa
- Altria Group
- Best Buy
- Enterprise GP Holdings
- HCA
- Ingram Micro
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
- McKesson
- New York Life Insurance
- Sears Holdings
- Valero Energy
Excluded from INDEX
The following sites were excluded from the INDEX.
- American International Group
- Walt Disney
- Hess
- Honeywell International
- Procter & Gamble
- Safeway
PDF testing
19.8% 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 |
92.07% |
| url/fetch/badcookie Web server attempted to set invalid cookie |
1.56% |
| file/url/badpath None |
1.31% |
| url/fetch/notfound File not found |
1.16% |
| file/url/offtop None |
1.01% |
| file/html/notitle None |
0.79% |
| url/fetch/noaddr Host not found in DNS |
0.32% |
| file/html/badmeta None |
0.29% |
| url/fetch/unknownstatus Unknown status code received from web server |
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 |
41.94% |
| file/html/unknownentity Unknown entity name |
41.55% |
| file/html/tagnotallowed A start tag has been found in a position in which that element may not appear |
5.12% |
| file/html/badattr Invalid attribute name |
3.23% |
| file/html/badvalue Invalid attribute value |
2.16% |
| file/html/closingunopened A redundant close tag was found |
1.95% |
| file/html/unknowntag A start or end tag was found which was unrecognised |
1.63% |
| file/html/missingclose An element is missing the required close tag |
0.91% |
| file/html/unnecessaryclose An end tag was found for an element which does not require one |
0.84% |
| file/html/repeatedattr A tag has been assigned the same attribute more than once |
0.28% |