The Sun was the fastest growing online news brand in July, according to ABC figures, boosting the number of daily average unique browsers on its website to 5.06m – up 96 per cent year-on-year.
Mail Online, the UK’s most-visited news website, grew online readership by 1 per cent year-on-year to 15.03m.
This is more than double nearest rival The Independent, despite the online-only title increasing the number of daily average unique browsers by 54 per cent year-on-year to 6.14m.
The Guardian is not currently audited by ABC.
Metro’s online readership also rose, climbing by 67 per cent year-on-year to 2.42m.
Among the regional daily websites, the Coventry Telegraph was the biggest climber. Its daily average unique browsers were up 70 per cent year-on-year to 108,731.
The Birmingham Mail was up 52 per cent year-on-year to 404,988.
Publication | Total circulation July 2017 | % change year-on-year | % change month-on-month |
MailOnline | 15,027,746 | 1.01 | -2.46 |
The Independent | 6,140,183 | 53.73 | -0.27 |
Mirror Online | 5,236,761 | -0.72 | -7.18 |
The Sun | 5,060,122 | 95.81 | -4.2 |
Metro | 2,423,735 | 67.05 | -9.44 |
express.co.uk | 2,262,239 | 28.37 | 8.16 |
dailystar.co.uk | 965,174 | 3.01 | 6.07 |
Manchester Evening News | 956,752 | 16.3 | -2.79 |
Evening Standard | 845,288 | 39.3 | -14.99 |
Liverpool Echo | 743,349 | 14 | 4.34 |
Wales Online | 443,455 | 16.3 | 3.21 |
Birmingham Mail | 404,988 | 51.74 | -1.12 |
Chronicle Live | 312,834 | 15.71 | 5.14 |
Bristol Post | 166,126 | 21.33 | |
Hull Daily Mail | 132,135 | -1.3 | |
GazetteLive | 131,308 | 13.49 | 4.32 |
Daily Post (Wales) | 125,115 | 46.9 | -4.2 |
Nottingham Post | 121,155 | 4.93 | |
Coventry Telegraph | 108,731 | 70.37 | 25.96 |
Plymouth Herald | 102,311 | -11.32 | |
Derby Telegraph | 97,395 | 4.89 | |
Leicester Mercury | 95,739 | 7.96 | |
Stoke Sentinel | 92,751 | -3.5 | |
Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 84,019 | 41.36 | -1.75 |
Get Surrey | 78,721 | 48.06 | -3.95 |
Cambridge News | 67,304 | -23.45 | |
Get Reading | 57,317 | 9.28 | 6.06 |
Grimsby Telegraph | 43,600 | -8.36 | |
Visiter.co.uk | 18,217 | 71.34 | 6.91 |
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