According to the recently-revealed results of a World Wide Web Foundation Web Index survey, Internet access is best being used by Scandinavian country Sweden, followed by the US and the UK respectively in the second and third spot.

As per the survey, which examined the use of Internet access in 61 countries, Sweden topped the new Web Index, which has been designed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Foundation.

The Web Index, which will be published annually, measures as well as ranks the countries across three sub-indexes, namely: web readiness, web use, and web impact. While web readiness includes things like infrastructure; web use includes the quantity of web content available; and web impact includes social-media interactions as well as business use.

With a perfect Web Index score of 100 resulting from high marks across all the three sub-indexes, Sweden topped the first edition of the Web Index globally, surpassing countries like the US, the UK, Canada and Finland.

However, as per the survey’s report, Sweden still apparently has scope for further growth, more so as it was found that online information was currently available to only 91 percent of the country’s Web-using population.

Meanwhile, expressing the hope that the survey’s findings will help shape the global web policy, Sir Berners-Lee – who launched the World Wide Web Foundation in November 2009 – said: “The Index is a powerful tool that will empower individuals, government and organisations to improve their societies.”