Irish people have many smartphones and few wearables according to new figures

New figures from Google reveal a lot about the digital practises of people from all over the world, including Ireland

The digital revolution has been sweeping the world for a good many years now, bringing us all closer together and putting a multitude of information at our fingertips. And Google's latest consumer barometer survey gives us a glimpse at how real people use these products and services in their everyday lives.

The yearly survey looks at questions like how people access the internet (smartphone or computer, etc) and how satisfied they are with the mobile sites they use online. There's a huge amount of data to chew through, and you can start digesting it over on the official site.

You can also break it down by specific countries, including Ireland. And it's all very revealing indeed.

For example, we've become a country of internet shoppers - driven there by appealing prices and a better range of products, as well as easier ways to pay. Smartphones play a vital role in looking for new items to buy, with 40% of people saying that they got early inspiration for a purchase while browsing on their phone.

And smartphone use has been increasing here, with 97 percent of those under 25 now equipped with a data enabled handset. That drops off to 47 percent for the over 55s which is still healthy penetration. 84 percent of people in Ireland use the internet everyday from a variety of connected devices including phones, tablets and computers.

Almost a quarter of the population of the country uses five or more connected devices regularly, which means we're generally a tech savvy nation. And we've been doing it for a long time, with almost three quarters using a smartphone for more than 12 months.

The most popular smartphone activities will be familar to most users - setting an alarm clock, taking photos, checking the time, checking the weather and the news - in that order. Only 7 percent read books or use it for fitness tracking, which says a lot about the state of our personal health and interest in reading these days.

And for those who are creating videos to be watched online, take note - we really do prefer it when they're short. Half of people said that they most recently watched a video which was less than five minutes long.

Want to find out more about our online habits, dig in here.