Average user racks up 50 hours every week on the internet

Two days of the average person’s week is spent online, new research claims.

By using the web for work and leisure, the average internet user is clocking up 50 hours a week online, according to uSwitch.com – a jump of 20 hours a week in just two years.

The average Scot spends 49 hours a week online, compared with 55 hours a week spent online by Londoners. About five hours of the average working day are spent on the internet, but consumers are increasingly using the internet outside of work for shopping, chatting, watching films and downloading music. Some 93 per cent of 18-24 year olds use social networking sites against 41 per cent per cent of over-55s, while 90 per cent of UK consumers shop online and 57 per cent watch TV, films and video on computers.