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June 16, 2016

Website ABCs: Express and Star titles have fastest growing newspaper websites in May 2016

By Dominic Ponsford

The Express and Star titles had the fastest growing newspaper websites in the UK in May 2016.

They grew respectively by 86 per cent 55 per cent year on year.

Mail Online remains top, with 13.9 million global browsers per day according to ABC. But its growth appears to have stalled – it was only up 1 per cent year on year.

The Telegraph posted a rare year-on-year drop, falling 11.5 per cent.

The latest figures do not yet take into account the long awaited relaunch of The Sun website earlier this month.

Newspaper website ABC figures for May 2016 (source ABC):

Title Avg daily unique browsers % change month on month % change year on year
MailOnline 13,954,521.00 -0.61 1.03
theguardian.com 8,923,129.00 -4.01 18.90
Mirror Group Nationals 4,643,612.00 1.72 6.82
Telegraph 4,342,570.00 5.21 -11.51
The Independent 3,048,377.00 -7.19 15.56
Trinity Mirror Regional Network 2,394,003.00 7.77 20.12
The Sun 2,367,137.00 0.97
express.co.uk 1,559,744.00 11.39 85.81
Metro 1,207,841.00 1.26 -16.90
dailystar.co.uk 899,259.00 17.00 55.00
Manchester Evening News 712,021.00 13.67 14.79
Liverpool Echo 584,619.00 8.54 36.46
Evening Standard 539,880.00 9.61 21.74
Wales Online 286,568.00 -2.16 29.91
Chronicle Live 258,661.00 17.82 32.29
Birmingham Mail 206,684.00 -1.72 1.39
Teesside Evening Gazette 114,725.00 7.13 13.72
Daily Post (Wales) 83,187.00 -1.66 37.50
Coventry Telegraph 57,115.00 -5.11 5.84
Huddersfield Daily Examiner 55,866.00 5.45 12.12
Get Reading 53,160.00 21.23
Get Surrey 52,111.00 15.62
Visiter.co.uk 10,730.00 14.21 2.06

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