Alexa 100 Accessibility Updates
In December 2011, I conducted a quick analysis of the Alexa Top 100 web site home pages. The results showed notable issues across these sites. Now, over 5 years later, I thought I’d re-evaluate those same sites to see if and how things have changed.
As in 2011, the WAVE browser extension was used to conduct the evaluation. While the extension has changed a bit, the results give an indication of change over the last 5 years.
The following table shows WAVE errors from 2017 compared to those identified in 2011 (both values exclude contrast errors).
Site Data
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Site Name
# of Errors in 2017
# of Errors in 2011
ehow.com
334
1
espn.com
238
18
usatoday.com
208
105
aol.com
177
15
myspace.com
158
10
huffingtonpost.com
123
9
allrecipes.com
119
15
kohls.com
117
51
hulu.com
115
50
washingtonpost.com
111
43
nytimes.com
96
58
tmz.com
88
30
macys.com
88
2
slickdeals.net
77
306
amazon.com
76
6
nfl.com
73
107
about.com
71
26
twitter.com
71
5
reddit.com
61
24
msn.com
60
5
dailymail.co.uk
59
22
pch.com
57
0
ups.com
55
24
yelp.com
54
3
cnet.com
53
20
foxnews.com
49
220
youtube.com
48
8
go.com
47
44
toysrus.com
47
30
bing.com
47
0
match.com
43
26
imdb.com
42
20
vimeo.com
42
3
salesforce.com
37
22
pof.com
36
17
sears.com
36
15
latimes.com
34
67
godaddy.com
33
16
wsj.com
33
16
foxsports.com
32
19
jcpenney.com
30
1
pandora.com
28
44
cnn.com
27
89
imgur.com
25
19
fedex.com
24
23
gap.com
23
22
photobucket.com
23
18
newegg.com
23
6
shopathome.com
22
8
answers.com
21
61
barnesandnoble.com
21
29
warriorforum.com
21
16
verizonwireless.com
21
2
homedepot.com
17
90
capitalone.com
16
55
coupons.com
16
35
att.com
16
30
mywebsearch.com
16
1
adobe.com
15
2
target.com
14
12
facebook.com
14
8
wordpress.com
14
8
yahoo.com
13
9
americanexpress.com
13
4
rr.com
12
39
swagbucks.com
12
33
constantcontact.com
12
28
bestbuy.com
11
6
comcast.net
11
2
reference.com
10
9
netflix.com
10
1
cbssports.com
9
17
tumblr.com
9
10
drudgereport.com
8
21
wellsfargo.com
7
2
etsy.com
7
1
craigslist.org
6
2
weather.com
5
28
linkedin.com
5
18
ebay.com
5
12
google.com
5
6
stumbleupon.com
5
6
paypal.com
5
3
wordpress.org
5
1
blogspot.com
5
0
chase.com
4
51
pinterest.com
4
2
bankofamerica.com
4
1
ask.com
3
11
groupon.com
3
11
usps.com
3
5
indeed.com
3
2
wikipedia.org
3
1
bbc.co.uk
2
21
microsoft.com
2
11
live.com
2
5
flickr.com
1
25
apple.com
1
0
walmart.com
0
29
thepiratebay.org
0
2
Analysis
The number of errors found has increased 60% over the last 5 years – from an average of 25 errors in 2011 to 40 errors in 2017. The median number of errors increased from 15 to 21. 67 of the 100 pages have more errors now than in 2011.
A similar analysis of these pages from only one year ago showed the average errors to be 35.5 (compared to 40 today). This would suggest that the pace [...]