UK adult daily time spent online
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United Kingdom · May 2023
UK adult daily time spent online was 221 minutes in May 2023 (Ofcom).
- Publisher
- Ofcom
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Overview / Online use in the UK
- Retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In total, 47.9 million UK adults accessed the internet on smartphones, tablets and computers in May 2023, spending an average of 3 hours 41 minutes a day online, eight minutes more than in May 2022.
Checked: the figure 221 minutesis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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APA
Office of Communications. (2023). Online Nation 2023 Report. Retrieved September 30, 2026, from https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/272288/online-nation-2023-report.pdf. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X5RB6G290EBHB3NYE8PHSDPKNA
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation 2023 Report." 2023, https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/272288/online-nation-2023-report.pdf. Accessed 30 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X5RB6G290EBHB3NYE8PHSDPKNA.
- Chicago
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation 2023 Report." 2023. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/272288/online-nation-2023-report.pdf. Accessed September 30, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X5RB6G290EBHB3NYE8PHSDPKNA.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ofcom2023adultsdpkna, author = {{Office of Communications}}, title = {Online Nation 2023 Report}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X5RB6G290EBHB3NYE8PHSDPKNA}, note = {Original source: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/\_\_data/assets/pdf\_file/0029/272288/online-nation-2023-report.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 2023 Report
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 28 November 2023
- Locator
- Overview / Online use in the UK
- 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_X5RB6G290EBHB3NYE8PHSDPKNA