Internet in India Demographics and Top sites

Among the long list of overoptimistic internet projections here is one more would you believe 80 million users by 2010 that seems to be latest one from mint nevertheless they also reproduce an interesting set of data about Indian internet users drawn from a panel of 10,000 users whose key points are

• Nearly 24% users spent more than 10 hours on internet every week
• Nearly 42% of users visit more than 10 sites
• Google and Yahoo dominate as top indian sites
• 87% of Indian internet users are between 15-34 years old
• Internet is male dominated activity
• Orkut is number 1 and Facebook is a far behind as no 2 among social networks in India
• IRCTC is number 1 ecommerce site followed by ICICI bank
• A completely wrong statistic which states that peak hour for internet is 7-8 which goes against all the data I have

You can check out the report here
The key stat here is shown in table alongside which is average time spent in each category which can give you insights in which are the most engaging activities for a internet user in india.Though matrimony  pretty much serves a similar purpose in Indian context as dating in foreign.
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