Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Analysis on Tuesday, updates on Friday. European Internet Use Still Behind the US Internet user data released by NetValue found that 48.7 percent of the SU population is connected to the Internet at home, and that the Internet penetration has reached 50.5 million US households. NetValue also collected data from Internet users in the UK, France, and Germany. The UK has more Internet users than either France or Germany, and male Web surfers in the UK are more likely to visit e-commerce sites than men in Germany, France, or the US, according to NetValue.
American women spend more time surfing and visiting e-commerce sites than European women.
The UK leads the way in Europe with more than 6.4 million households connected to the Internet, representing 27 percent of the UK population. The percentage of new users in therefore sharply more significant in Europe. Amongst European nations, Germany has the highest percentage of earlier Internet adopters. NetValue NetValue collects its data via panels implemented and managed by Taylor Nelson Sofres. The UK, Germany and France saw 9 million new Internet users go online in 1999, according to NOP Research Group.