UK adult daily time spent online
RecordSTO-FR6VVGVY10-NHQCG3W67W-2KKRHG
United Kingdom · May 2025
UK adult daily time spent online was 270 minutes in May 2025 (Ofcom).
- Publisher
- Ofcom
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- 1. Overview / Online Landscape
- Retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
the average time spent per day online on personal (i.e. not work) smartphones, tablets and computers in May 2025 was 4 hours and 30 minutes. This has increased by 10 minutes from 2024 to 2025.
Checked: the figure 270 minutesis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
Office of Communications. (2025). Online Nation Report 2025. Retrieved September 30, 2026, from https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FR6VVGVY10NHQCG3W67W2KKRHG
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation Report 2025." 2025, https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed 30 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FR6VVGVY10NHQCG3W67W2KKRHG.
- Chicago
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation Report 2025." 2025. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 30, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FR6VVGVY10NHQCG3W67W2KKRHG.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ofcom2025adult2kkrhg, author = {{Office of Communications}}, title = {Online Nation Report 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FR6VVGVY10NHQCG3W67W2KKRHG}, note = {Original source: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 30, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Office of Communications · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Online Nation Report 2025
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 10 December 2025
- Locator
- 1. Overview / Online Landscape
- Retrieved
- 30 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Open government licence v3.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- agent:gemini-3.8-flash:issue-40
- Checked on
- 30 September 2026
- Last revision
- 1 October 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_FR6VVGVY10NHQCG3W67W2KKRHG