Who won the online Premiership title?

If you'd asked Arsene Wenger on Wednesday what he'd rather win - the double, or silicon.com's Premiership Website of the Year award - he'd probably have said "le double, naturellement", or words to that effect.

Which is probably for the best, because his all-conquering Gunners have been beaten into tenth place by a raft of less fashionable clubs in our inaugural table of top performing Premiership URLs.

Over the season Everton's website has seen off all-comers - available in an average time of 2.5 seconds. At its slowest it took 3.32 seconds to download at its quickest it zipped along at an impressive 1.46 seconds, as recorded exclusively for silicon.com by Keynote Systems.

As any championship-winning side will tell you, it is consistency throughout the season that holds the key to success. Sunderland and Southampton recorded the fastest download speeds over the season of 0.58 seconds and 0.65 seconds respectively - but they also regularly posted times in excess of four and five seconds which meant they both missed out on a place in the top three.

Ipswich threatened to take Everton to the wire, but fell just 0.02 seconds short averaged out over the season. Although this weekend may well see the Tractor Boys drop out of the Premiership, they can hold their heads up high among the online community.

Further down the table the likes of Bolton, Blackburn, Derby, Leicester and Middlesbrough gravitated towards the bottom. Blackburn and Leicester's site registered the worst performances - taking a season's average of 9.38 seconds and 9.12 seconds respectively to download. So Leicester are relegated from the online and real-world Premiership - a less prestigious double than Arsenal's.

But this strugglers' convention is also joined by Premiership big spenders Manchester United, who find themselves in sixteenth place.

Perhaps if they spent as much money on their technology as they have done on hapless South American imports they might have saved a little face in the online world.

The full end of season table looks like this:

1. Everton
2. Ipswich
3. Liverpool*
4. Southampton
5. Sunderland
6. Leeds
7. West Ham
8. Newcastle
9. Charlton Athletic*
10. Arsenal
11. Tottenham Hotspur
12. Fulham
13. Chelsea
14. Derby
15. Bolton
16. Manchester United
17. Middlesbrough
18. Aston Villa
19. Leicester
20. Blackburn

*Liverpool and Charlton's websites were not available for monitoring for the whole season - as such their placings are based on results early in the season.

All statistics were provided by Keynote Systems: http://www.keynote.com .
Keynote is the worldwide leader in internet performance services.