The Belfast Telegraph is the third most popular service in this region. The yearly Online Nation study from Ofcom looks at people's online behaviours and how online platforms and content providers cater to them.

In May 2024, Ofcom's sample month, 47.4 million UK people used the internet on a variety of devices, logging on for an average of four hours and twenty minutes every day, according to the research.

The average amount of time spent online each day was four hours and forty-four minutes in Scotland, one minute more than in Wales, and four hours and sixteen minutes in England and Northern Ireland.

The only two regions had local news titles that were read by more than half of the population were Wales and Northern Ireland.

This was the Belfast Telegraph in Northern Ireland, which, at 51%, had the third-highest reach among adults in the region, after the BBC and Mail Online.