A snapshot of statistics

30% of organizations have a direct link to their sustainability report on their homepage.

40% of organizations put all their GRI information in one report; 22.5% put the information in 3 or more locations.

32.5% of organizations provide a full online report, but the PDF is still the format of choice with 100% of reporters using one as a component of their reporting.

82.5% of organizations make more than one report on sustainability available online – with older reports and regional reports being common secondary report types.

Flash was the most popular functionality added to web reporting, and was used by 27.5% of organizations.

7.5% of organizations had an RSS feed or email service to keep stakeholders up to date on sustainability issues.

Only 10% of reporters in our sample provided an online feedback form.

Seven organizations (17.5%) let users download individual chapters of the report, while an additional 4 organizations (10%) allow users to generate their own customised reports.

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