May 11, 2010

The Slowest Loading Websites in the Fortune 500

Mashable.com article by Josh Catone - Keeping one’s website up and loading quickly is vitally important for any company, but for the 500 biggest companies in the world, poor website load times can be an especially costly proposition. For the largest companies, negative brand associations due to poor experiences from slow loading websites can ultimately cost millions of dollars.

That’s why brands definitely don’t want to be on the list of worst offenders when it comes to website loading times. New Zealand-based web optimization company Aptimize just released its 2010 Website Performance Benchmarks whitepaper [PDF], which is based on the averages of the load times of all Fortune 500 companies’ websites, more...