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July 26, 2012updated 14 Sep 2012 2:55pm

Mail fastest growing press website with 93.7m browsers

By Press Gazette

Mail Online was the biggest and the fastest growing national newspaper website in June with 93.7m global ‘unique browsers'.

This global monthly total was up 39.7 per cent year on year while the daily browsers total stood at 5.8m according to ABC, up 44.8 per cent year on year.

The Guardian was the next most popular UK newspaper online with 3.4m daily browsers (up 29 per cent year on year) followed by The Telegraph with 2.4m (up 22.5 per cent).

The Independent and Metro were the only national press websites to fail to achieve growth year on year in June.

National press website figures for June 2012 – daily average unique browsers total

Name of website: Daily browsers; percentage change year on year; percentage change month on month

MailOnline : 5,882,223 ; 44.81 ; 4.84

Guardian.co.uk : 3,374,984 ; 29.14 ; -0.88

Telegraph : 2,353,047 ; 22.45 ; -7.07

The Sun : 1,528,561 ; N/A ; 0.10

Mirror Group Digital : 777,536 ; 6.47 ; 1.63

The Independent : 611,122 ; -2.38 ; -14.29

Metro : 359,273 ; -1.00 ; 3.08

Standard.co.uk : 132,409 ; N/A ; -11.96

National press website figures for June 2012 – monthly total unique browsers

Name of website: Daily browsers; percentage change year on year; percentage change month on month

MailOnline : 93,740,234 ; 39.68 ; 2.24

Telegraph : 45,613,085 ; 25.11 ; -8.70

The Sun : 24,973,156 ; N/A ; -1.53

Mirror Group Digital : 15,595,143 ; 6.03 ; -2.24

The Independent : 12,793,451 ; -5.33 ; -17.20

Metro : 8,151,758 ; N/A ; -4.34

Standard.co.uk : 2,934,930 ; N/A ; -12.57

(No monthly total for Guardian.co.uk this month)

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