Fortune 100 Web sites are surprisingly flawed. With the world's top 35 companies having a Web site link error every 3.5 pages and over 12 HTML coding errors per page, these global corporations are unnecessarily threatening the return on their Internet investment. Link and HTML coding errors are avoidable. In most cases, these are simple or sloppy coding errors that are easy and inexpensive to fix. In fact, the cost of neglecting errors is much higher than repairs themselves.
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In addition, some 40 percent to 50 percent of corporate America's IT budget is spent on fixing software defects. Corporations need to know what they spend on detecting, repairing, and preventing Web site flaws. Delays in production significantly increase development costs. What's more, costs in the form of operational disruptions, service outages, and product failures, are then passed on to customers using the software. Web site error detection is a key business issue that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media and corporations alike-in part, because they don't realize how pervasive and damaging Web site errors are.