The Times of India Online is the world's No.1 English newspaper website in terms of page views, according to latest data coming in from ComScore. Timesofindia.com has 159 million page views in May 2009 which is more than the page views of The New York Times, Sun, Washington Post, Daily Mail and USA Today websites.

According to ComScore, the top five English newspaper websites in the world in May 2009 were timesofindia.com (159 million), the sun.co.uk (142 million), nytimes.com (124 million), dailymail.co.uk (73 million) and washingtonpost.com (61 million).

Commenting on the figures, Vineet Jain, managing director, Times Group, said, "The news makes us happy, but there is much more to come. At present, internet penetration in India is only 5% and it's growing at about 30% a year. As newer technologies are introduced and we further empower our readers, in the coming years we'll see an exponential growth in our online readership. ToI will become a far bigger player on the global stage.''