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Internet Speed Report United Kingdom May 2025

A comprehensive analysis of broadband performance in United Kingdom based on real user speed tests conducted on Bandwidth Place.

Year 2025 2024
Period Full Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Total Tests

1,207

Avg. Download

355.24Mbps

Avg. Upload

122.17Mbps

Avg. Ping

29.1ms

Top Internet Providers

Provider Avg Speed
Virgin Media Limited 429.0 Mbps
Virgin Media 323.5 Mbps
Virgin Media 321.5 Mbps
Virgin Media Limited 286.3 Mbps
Virgin Media 473.6 Mbps
Vodafone Group PLC 448.9 Mbps
Virgin Media 383.7 Mbps
Virgin Media Limited 247.2 Mbps
Virgin Media 322.6 Mbps
Zen Internet Ltd 301.4 Mbps

Top Devices

Device Share
iPhone 11.9%
Generic Smartphone 7.4%
Generic Smartphone 5.1%
Generic Smartphone 4.5%

Top Browsers

Browser Share
Chrome 18.6%
Mobile Safari 11.9%
Chrome Mobile 7.4%
Chrome 7.0%
Chrome Mobile 5.1%
Chrome 4.9%
Samsung Internet 4.5%
Safari 3.3%
Chrome 3.1%
Safari 1.9%

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Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Anglesey Angus Antrim Ards District Argyll and Bute Armagh District Ballymena District Ballymoney District Banbridge District Barnsley Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Belfast Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Blaenau Gwent Bolton Borough of Bury Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford Brighton and Hove Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly County Borough Calderdale Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Castlereagh Central Bedfordshire Ceredigion Cheshire Cheshire East City and County of Swansea City of Newport Clackmannanshire Coleraine Conwy Cookstown Cornwall County Borough of Bridgend Coventry Craigavon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Down Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City Dungannon Durham East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Fermanagh Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow City Gloucestershire Gwynedd Halton Hampshire Hartlepool Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Inverclyde Isle of Wight Kent Kingston upon Hull Kirklees Knowsley Lancashire Larne Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Limavady Lincolnshire Lisburn Liverpool Londonderry Luton Magherafelt Manchester Medway Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Middlesbrough Midlothian Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Moray Moyle Neath Port Talbot Newcastle upon Tyne Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey Norfolk North Ayrshire North Down North East Lincolnshire North Lanarkshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Omagh Orkney Islands Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Reading Redcar and Cleveland Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taf Rochdale Rotherham Rutland Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Shetland Islands Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Gloucestershire South Lanarkshire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea St. Helens Staffordshire Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Strabane Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tameside Telford and Wrekin The Scottish Borders Thurrock Torbay Torfaen County Borough Trafford Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Berkshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Sussex Western Isles Wigan Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham York

Analysis Methodology

The data presented in this report is aggregated directly from real user speed tests performed on the Bandwidth Place platform testing network nodes globally during 2025. We calculate the localized metrics using strict data sanity checks to prevent skewed results from anomalies or extreme outliers.

SEO & Location Routing Structure: Because location data is structurally rigid, caching data dynamically to static hierarchy (Country -> State -> City) provides significant improvements to PageSpeed metrics and Time to First Byte (TTFB). This strategy ensures optimum indexing for search engines processing localized queries.