WebAIM: Alexa 100 Accessibility Updates

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 [...]

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