These are some of the latest marketing and internet statistics:

• Around 29 million adults in Britain (63%) accessed the internet in the three months before February 2006. [Office for National Statistics, 2006]
• The main place for internet use was at home (86%)
• 46% said they use it at work
• 28% said they used it at another person's home
• 16% use the internet at a place of education
• 10% use it at a public library.
• Two-thirds of those who have ever accessed the internet have bought or ordered goods online, with adults aged between 25 and 44 the most likely to do so (73%).

• 26.5m people aged over 15 in the UK used the internet in December 2005 (56.3% of the total UK over-15 population) [BMRB, February 2006]
• More than 23.5m were home users.
• Growth in the number of online users was 13% in 2005 compared to 7% in 2003 and 2004.
• Users were found to have used the internet, on average, for five and a half years.

• Over half (55%) of households in Great Britain (13.1 million) could access the internet from home in May 2005 [National Statistics Omnibus Survey, May 2005]

60% of the adult population (aged 15+) in Great Britain used the Internet in September 2005 (up from 45% in April 2002) [MORI Technology Tracker, 2005].