Sortlist is an online platform that works on establishing professional relationships and liaise projects between agencies and corporates within the framework of businesses. Sortlist is specialized in analyzing data and statistics related to market indicators and business growth. Sortlist issued its latest reports related to the analysis of average internet usage across different devices connected to the internet to see what a typical digital year looks like for people, as well as how our annual internet usage varies around the world.

Sortlist raised several questions focused on people's behaviors and their diverse usage to monitor and analyze how they spend their time in front of their multiple devices, such as phones, computers, and other devices connected to the internet.

Also, the report showed that for many people, smartphones are the first thing to check upon waking up and the last thing to see before going to bed.

Whether for catching up with friends, checking work emails, or just scrolling through social networks, we're spending more time than ever in front of digital screens.

At the same time, the report states that it may be difficult to track the amount of time you spend in front of a screen per day, although it is increasing rapidly, especially when you track the amount of time over an entire year.

The Sortlist report also answers the question: How long does the average person spend on social media?

The Internet user usually spends about 145 minutes a day on social media, from 142 minutes in the last year.

In fact, this is a relatively long time, roughly less than two hours and a half per day, but what how it looks like over a longer period of time?

Considering that much time on social media every day, it would be less than 17 hours each week, or three days each month.

Over a year, you would spend at least a month scrolling through social networks!

However, the report shifts to answer in more detail how we spend our time on other applications.

The report notes that ordinary people use their smartphones for more than just social media, but what are the other apps users spend most of their time on?

The three categories in which people spend the most minutes are related to gaming: sports gaming taking up the most time (23 minutes); casual gaming (21 minutes), and “hyper-casual” gaming (19 minutes)—super simple and easy-to-play games, such as Flappy Bird.

If we assume that the average internet user uses each of these apps once a day, this means they would spend five days and nine hours a year playing casual gaming and two days and eight hours on mobile shopping!

The report also raises a deeper question about the applications that we spend the most time in.

YouTube app is one of the specific apps that we use the most and the one mainly consuming most of the time, for less than 1 day every month and more than 11 days a year.

This percentage is not far from what people spend on social media giants: Facebook and WhatsApp; their average time is about 19 hours and a half per user each month, roughly under 10 days a year.

 
The report reveals which countries spend the most time on their screens, answering an important question: How the situation looks like around the world? and which countries spend more time in front of their screens?

Looking at the internet usage of all internet users aged between 16 and 64, the nation with the longest screen time was the Philippines, with an incredible 10 hours and 56 minutes a day spent online, about 166 days a year.

The Philippines is the country that spent the most time on social media, with four hours and 15 minutes a day, 65 days a year.

On the contrary, the Japanese spent the least time on the internet, with only four hours and 25 minutes a day, six and a half hours less than Filipinos, who stay online the most.

While social media screen time data wasn’t available for the Japanese, its neighbors in South Korea had the lowest time spent on social media with one hour and eight minutes per day.