New Delhi: People in India are taking onto the world wide web in a big way outpacing anyone else across the globe - including big brothers like the US, China, Japan and Germany in terms of the online population.
The total online population in India, measured in terms of people aged over 15 years accessing internet, rose 7.8 per cent to 18.02 million in June, from 16.71 million three months ago in March, a latest survey from US-based technology research firm comScore Networks reveals.
The growth in the country's online population outscores the rise of 2.7 per cent in the world's overall online audience size, which rose to 713 million in June, from 694 million in March this year.
India has also become the ninth biggest country in terms of the total online population from its 10th position three months ago, while the US has retained its top slot with 153 million of web users.
Interestingly, the figures exclude the traffic from public computers such as cyber cafes and access from mobile phones or PDAs. The total number of people accessing Internet could be much higher if those aged below 15 years and the public computer data and new-age mediums such as mobiles and PDAs are also taken into consideration.
The number of Internet visitors rose less than 1 per cent in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, while United Kingdom (UK), France and Australia have actually registered a decline from the March 2006 levels.
According to the comScore June World Metrix report published on Wednesday, China witnessed the second-biggest jump of 5.22 per cent, Russia witnessed 5.14 per cent growth, while online population of Japan, Korea, Canada and Brazil rose between 2-4 per cent.
The US continued to have the highest online population across the world of 153 million, which accounted for 21 per cent of the all worldwide unique visitors, while India accounted for 2.5 per cent of the worldwide total.
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China maintained its second position with 78.31 million online population followed by Japan and Germany with 53.10 million and 31.97 million respectively.
Despite a decline in growth UK maintains its position as the fifth biggest country in terms of online population at 29.83 million.
Italy moved down the list losing its ninth position to India with a total of 16.85 million web users. Netherlands also fell a notch below its 13 position in the list with 10.86 million users.
Microsoft sites were ranked as top web property worldwide in June with nearly 500 million visitors out of the total 713 million web users in the world. Yahoo and Google sites were ranked at second and third positions with more than 450 million visitors each in the month of June.
Ebay and Time Warner sites clocked more than 200 million users while Wikipedia, Ask network, Amazon, Adobe, Apple Computers, Lycos, CNET networks, Monster, Real.com and myspace.com were also present in the top 15 online properties worldwide.
"While established internet players like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have grabbed the top spots in worldwide ranking several upstarts have quickly found there way into the top league," comScore Europe Managing Director Bob Ivins said.
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