Leeds United tearing up the online Premiership

While Leeds United may have been unconvincing on the pitch this season, they are proving to be no slouches online - topping silicon.com's Premiership table for December.

The Leeds United website was available within an impressive average time of 0.72 seconds throughout the month, which included the busy, bandwidth-sapping Christmas period. Second place went to Newcastle United, with a very impressive 0.93 seconds, and Chartlon Athletic (1.54 seconds) pipped last year's online champions Everton to third spot, by the slenderest of margins - with just 0.03 seconds separating them over the month.

The results, provided by web monitoring firm Keynote, also revealed that for all their success and big spending Manchester United are trailing behind all their Premiership rivals, coming in last place for the month, with a pedestrian 4.59 seconds.

Also down in the 'relegation zone' are United's local rivals Manchester City (4.18 seconds) and homeless West Londoners Fulham (4.26 seconds).

Click here to see the full table: http://www.silicon.com/a57010 .