The Sun was again the fastest growing UK national newspaper website in October as growth of the market-leading Mail Online appears to have stalled.
As The Sun approached the anniversary of dropping its online paywall its web traffic grew 144.5 per cent to 3.1m global unique browsers (different devices) per day, according to ABC.
The Evening Standard was the second fastest growing UK newspaper website audited by ABC, up 46 per cent to just under 600,000 unique browsers per day.
Mail Online was slightly down month on month at 14.3m global unique browser per day. It has been at around the 14m unique browsers per day level since the beginning of 2015 and with a peak (so far) of 15.2m in August this year.
| Oct-16 | MoM% | YoY% | |
| MailOnline | 14,289,935 | -3.05 | 7.88 |
| Mirror Group Nationals | 5,054,576 | 2.89 | 36.54 |
| Telegraph | 4,021,221 | -7.58 | -6.17 |
| The Independent | 3,638,015 | 11.81 | 38.09 |
| The Sun | 3,145,140 | 8.24 | 144.45 |
| express.co.uk | 1,459,400 | -2.32 | 20.63 |
| Metro | 1,347,803 | 16.62 | 16.23 |
| Manchester Evening News | 758,787 | -3.03 | 34.4 |
| dailystar.co.uk | 740,916 | 4.34 | 18.74 |
| Evening Standard | 587,588 | 2.06 | 46.15 |
| Liverpool Echo | 536,095 | 1.79 | 9.93 |
| Wales Online | 346,671 | -0.67 | 7.17 |
| Birmingham Mail | 286,071 | 9.84 | 38.57 |
| Chronicle Live | 250,504 | -3.47 | 32.03 |
| GazetteLive | 116,776 | 4.72 | 7.85 |
| Hull Daily Mail (Web) | 116,614 | 12.15 |
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