The Times and Sunday Times doesn’t just have a paywall hemming in their websites – but a wall of silence too, on traffic numbers.

The most optimistic estimate so far on traffic numbers came from web metrics company Comscore – which estimated that 1.6 million users visited the newly paywalled Sunday Times and Times websites in July.

But that figure may well include those who got no further than the home-pages and did not venture beyond the paywalls.