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July 25, 2013updated 23 Aug 2022 7:21pm

Mirror website closes in on Sun ahead of News UK site’s paywall move

By Dominic Ponsford

The Mirror website was closing fast last month on The Sun in the latter's last month as a free website.
The Mirror was the fastest growing national newspaper website, up 85 per cent to 1.4m 'unique browsers' a day in June according to ABC.
This compares with The Sun up 18.7 per cent year on year to 1.8m uniques. The Sun goes behind a paywall as of 1 August.
Mail Online continues to be the most popular newspaper website in the UK (and the world) with 120.8m browsers a month and 8.1m a day in June, according to ABC.
The Guardian remains well ahead of the third-placed Telegraph with 85m browsers a month worldwide.
The Telegraph, despite being behind a paywall which limits free access to 20 articles per month, continues to grow year on year.
But it has seen its first month-on-month decline since going behind a paywall in April. Daily browsers were down 4.2 per cent month on month to 2.7m.
UK national newspaper website unique browsers for June 2013 (source ABC)
Mail Online:
Daily browsers: 8,111,988, up 38 per cent
Monthly browsers: 120,829,031, up 29 per cent
Guardian.co.uk:
Daily browsers: 4,884,043, up 44.7 per cent
Monthly browsers: 84,933,955
Telegraph.co.uk
Daily browsers: 2,733,136, up 16.1 per cent
Monthly browsers: 54,007,113, up 18.4 per cent
The Sun:
Daily browsers: 1,814,963, up 18.7 per cent
Monthly browsers: 29,603,055, up 18.5 per cent
The Mirror Group:
Daily browsers: 1,440,082, up 85.2 per cent
Monthly browsers: 29,354,671, up 88.2 per cent
The Independent:
Daily browsers: 1,099,561, up 80 per cent
Monthly browsers: 23,577,495, up 84.3 per cent
Metro:
Daily browsers: 417,551, up 16.2 per cent
Monthly browsers: 9,644,662, up 18.3 per cent
Standard.co.uk:
Daily browsers: 187,558, up 41.65 per cent
Monthly browsers: 4,126,393, up 40.6 per cent

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