How fast should corporate sites load? Studies have shown most users get fed up and leave as you approach 7 seconds. “Moderately annoyed” quickly becomes “screw this, I’m checking Twitter instead.”

You’d naturally think that each of the Fortune 500 companies must have an impeccable IT and Web team <insert sarcasm>, but the infographic below begs to differ.

Aptimize.com recently went through each Fortune 500 company site, and noted the average load time. The worst offenders leave you twiddling your thumbs for nearly a minute! Perhaps these companies should add to their IT budgets by pulling from the CEO bonus fund – just an idea…

[source: Aptimize]

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