new delhi people in india are taking on to 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 populationthe total online population in india measured in terms of people aged over 15 years accessing internet rose 78 per cent to 1802 million in june from 1671 million three months ago in march a latest survey from usbased technology research firm comscore networks revealsthe growth in the countrys online population outscores the rise of 27 per cent in the worlds overall online audience size which rose to 713 million in june from 694 million in march this yearindia 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 usersinterestingly 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 newage mediums such as mobiles and pdas are also taken into considerationthe 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 levelsaccording to the comscore june world metrix report published on wednesday china witnessed the secondbiggest jump of 522 per cent russia witnessed 514 per cent growth while online population of japan korea canada and brazil rose between 24 per centthe 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 25 per cent of the worldwide totalchina maintained its second position with 7831 million online population followed by japan and germany with 5310 million and 3197 million respectivelydespite a decline in growth uk maintains its position as the fifth biggest country in terms of online population at 2983 millionitaly moved down the list losing its ninth position to india with a total of 1685 million web users netherlands also fell a notch below its 13 position in the list with 1086 million usersmicrosoft 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 juneebay and time warner sites clocked more than 200 million users while wikipedia ask network amazon adobe apple computers lycos cnet networks monster realcom and myspacecom were also present in the top 15 online properties worldwidewhile established internet players like microsoft google and yahoo have grabbed the top spots in worldwide ranking several upstarts have quickly found