Smartphones and Tablets Account for Half of US Adults’ Time Online

September 10, 2013

This article is included in these additional categories:

Automotive | Boomers & Older | Digital | Mobile Phone | Radio | Social Media | Television | Youth & Gen X

comScoreJumptap-Share-of-Online-Time-by-Device-Sept2013Soaring smartphone and tablet use has doubled the amount of time Americans spend online in the matter of a few short years, finds a new report [download page] from comScore and Jumptap. As a result, as of April of this year, smartphones (39% share) and tablets (12% share) account for approximately half of adults’ time online, a figure which rises to 59% among 18-24-year-olds and 61% among women aged 25-49.

Smartphones alone account for 50% of online time for the two above-mentioned groups. Interestingly, while smartphones only account for a relatively small 25% of online time for Americans aged 50 and older, tablets grab 16% share, the highest among the age groups.

The share of internet time represented by mobile devices differs greatly from one category to the next. For example, together they account for just 24% of time online with the automotive category and 32% of time spent with TV sites (an outsized 20% of which is on tablets). By contrast, two-thirds of social media time goes to smartphones and tablets, as does 82% of online gaming time and 92% of online radio time.

comScoreJumptap-Digital-Cross-Platform-Audience-Sept2013The US’ “digital universe,” referring to the number of adults going online, is 194 million strong per month, per the report. Of those, about 63% (122 million) use both a PC and a mobile device, while PC-only users number 58 million (30% share) and mobile-only 14 million (7% share). Those figures are heavily influenced by older internet users. While 17-22% of internet users aged 18-49 are PC-only, that figure jumps to 48% of those aged 50 and older.

While only 17% of online women aged 25-49 are PC-only, a greater proportion of online males of that age are so-called “screen jumpers” (mobile and PC users), at 74% share. That’s because a significant 14% share of women aged 25-49 are mobile-only.

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