PH SPENDS MOST TIME

ONLINE AND ON SOCIAL

MEDIA-REPORT
Rappler.com
Publised 9:31PM, January 30, 2017
Updated 9:31PM, January 30, 2017

Manila , Philippines- More than half of the world’s population now uses the
internet. A whopping 3.75 billion people. That’s according to the “Digital in
2017 Global Overview” repost prepared by social media consultancy. We
are Social and the social media management platform Hootsuite.
The countries average speed of 4.2 Mbps – below the 6.3 Mbps global
average – does not dissuade Filipinos from logging long hours on line.
Internet use continues to grow around the world, with the number of
internet users growing by 8 % year-on-year. The world also continues to
shift to mobile, with the report nothing an increasing share of online
activity on mobile. More than hhalf of all online traffic now comes from
mobile.

In the Philippines, about 60

million – or 58% of te total months – second only to
population – have access to the Indonesian’s 51% growth rate for
internet. The country is slightly the same period.
above the global internet
penetration average of 50%, and
higher than the rate in countries When Filipinos go online they
such a China(53%), Vietnam (53%) tend to hang around, specifically
and India (35%). The United for 8 hours and 59 minutes
States tops the list at 99%. every day on average - the highes
in the world. Brazil follows at 8
The report said the number of hours and 43 minutes. Japan
internet users in the Philippines sports te shortest period of use
has grown by 27% in the past 12 at 4 hours and 6 minutes every
day.

The figures represent combined dektop and mobile figures.

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One common joke among Filipinos is that the country spends that much
time online because te internet is slow. It’s not completely untrue, the xed
internet connectionspeed sits at a paltry 4.2Mbps, which is below the 6.3
Mbps global average.

South Korea tops the ranking at 26.3 Mbps while Nigeria finds itself at the
back of hr race at 3.0 Mbps. The report cited Akamai’s State of the
internet statistics, released back in December 2016.

Some 38% of all web traffic in the Philippines comes from mobile, a figure
below the global average of 50%.

Table 4
Globally there are now
2,789 billion social
media users- 37% of te
world’s population –
across the platforms.

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