If you're considering signing up for online dating there are a few questions that are bound to have crossed your mind.

Who uses actually online dating? Am I too old/too young? Do people lie on their profiles? Are online dating sites full of weirdos?

But thanks to statistics collected by one dating site, you can now learn about the average online dater without taking the profile plunge yourself.

Dating site AYI.com, which has about 50,000 active UK members, has collated data from the self-reported information each member provides when signing up to tell us about the average UK user.

We are constantly told that online dating is now the norm, but, if you're young free and single you might be disappointed to hear that the average age of a man looking for love online is 44 while women average at 42-years-old.

It seems the younger generation are too busy swiping right to create a serious dating profile, so if you're a woman with a penchant for the younger man, you might want to consider downloading Tinder instead.

We've all heard an online dating horror story from a friend whose tall, dark and handsome match turned out to be a short troll-like being in the flesh. But according to these figures, the average height of a male online dater is 5'10".

Of course there might be some online daters out there with the build of Ryan Gosling, but, putting on our pessimistic hats, we can't but wonder if this stat is the result of a few porkie pies from the males signing up.

Women are down as being on average 5'4" and both men and women claimed that they have "about average" body types - whatever that's supposed to mean.

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The Average Profile Of An Online Dater Revealed, Including Height, Age And Diet