United Kingdom stands 33rd in the world for its broadband speed in the annual Net Index, as per the reports from broadband metrics group, Ookla.

These rankings were based on 1.5 billion surfers who had used Ookla's connection-testing utilities. These finding further hints that South Korea have the fastest broadband in the world, which is followed by Latvia, Moldova, Japan and Sweden.

UK clocks an average speed of 7.73Mbps which is nearly five times slower than South Korea, and only 0.04Mbps faster than world's average of 7.69Mbps.

US is also termed slow clocking an average broadband speed of 10.16 Mbps. Zambia steals the crown with the ‘ slowest broadband speed’, with an average speed of just 254kbps, a speed which is 100 times slower than South Korea.

This index lists out all the towns and cities in each country who claim the maximum and the least speeds.

However this in case of UK is credited to locations that are Worthing, Clitheroe and Troon.