August 25, 2017

Regional ABCs online: London Evening Standard overtakes MEN to become most-visited regional news website

The London Evening Standard has taken the top spot as the most-visited regional news website in the UK, new ABC figures show.

The Evening Standard overtook the Manchester Evening News to receive 994,292 daily unique browsers in June, up 37 per cent year-on-year.

The Manchester Evening News is up 32 per cent year-on-year to 984,217.

The last audit of regional newspaper websites, in December, put the MEN at 652,881 daily unique browsers to the Standard’s 544,339.

June figures show the Whitehaven News was the fastest-growing UK news website, climbing 163 per cent year-on-year to 3,864 daily unique browsers on average.

Also making large year-on-year gains were:

Cambridge News, up 97 per cent year-on-year to 87,916
Get Surrey, up 87.5 per cent to 81,962
Birgminham Mail, up 71 per cent to 409,555
Wales Daily Post, up 60 per cent to 130,604
The East Anglian Daily Times, up 68.5 per cent to 39,205

Number of daily unique browsers to regional news websites in June 2017 (source: ABC):

Website	Daily unique browsers (June 2017)	% period-on-period (Dec 2016)	% year-on-year
Trinity Mirror Regional Network	4,915,591	41.5	98.9
Newsquest Media Group	1,660,947	12.5	5.4
Johnston Network	1,336,578	21.3	12.3
Evening Standard	994,292	82.7	37
Manchester Evening News	984,217	50.7	31.6
Liverpool Echo	712,426	56	35.8
Wales Online	429,656	46.7	9.5
Birmingham Mail	409,555	47.4	70.7
Chronicle Live	297,527	39.4	25.5
Kent Online (KM Group) network	163,974	17.1	23.5
Bristol Post	136,916	45.7	24
Hull Daily Mail	133,878	28.5	28.5
Daily Post (Wales)	130,604	61	60.4
GazetteLive	125,872	21.9	18.7
Scotsman.com	123,326	26.9	18.6
Nottingham Post	115,464	25.3	29.7
Plymouth Herald	115,366	43.7	42.8
Thestar.co.uk	108,274	37.8	47.8
Yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk	107,547	50	45
Stoke Sentinel	96,115	20.9	15.1
Derby Telegraph	92,858	30.6	29.7
heraldscotland.com	92,408	4.5	-3.8
eveningtimes.co.uk	90,741	20.5	24
Eastern Daily Press	90,364	34.8	38
Leicester Mercury	88,681	46	7
Cambridge News	87,916	107.7	97.4
edinburghnews.scotsman.com	87,103	44.4	42.5
Coventry Telegraph	86,324	30.2	37.2
Huddersfield Daily Examiner	85,516	69.5	29
bournemouthecho.co.uk	83,930	2.9	3.4
dailyecho.co.uk	83,673	13.7	-1.4
Get Surrey	81,962	56.4	87.5
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk	74,849	3.3	-1.7
CN Media Network	66,151	13.9	42.4
thenorthernecho.co.uk	64,226	5.8	-1.5
Sunderlandecho.com	58,946	5.5	5.5
Portsmouth.co.uk	58,728	23.8	17.3
theboltonnews.co.uk	58,617	1.9	-5.8
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	57,709	12.7	-2.4
theargus.co.uk	56,508	11.8	3.9
thepress.co.uk	55,957	3.6	0.1
Get Reading	54,040	21.4	15.6
Grimsby Telegraph	47,576	23.9	16.5
southwalesargus.co.uk	47,119	15.9	2.2
Oxfordmail.co.uk	45,130	7.6	15.8
Yorkshirepost.co.uk	41,044	27.3	8.2
LEP.co.uk	40,055	21.6	17.7
East Anglian Daily Times	39,205	50.5	68.5
Swindonadvertiser.co.uk	38,093	9.5	10.5
Peterboroughtoday.co.uk	37,135	25.1	16.1
Blackpoolgazette.co.uk	36,959	11.8	11.7
newsshopper.co.uk	36,151	2.6	-23.1
www.newsandstar.co.uk	34,090	13.5	42.7
Ipswich Star	33,975	42.7	52.2
wigantoday.net	32,242	30.5	20.9
northamptonchronicle.co.uk	32,136	13.1	-11
worcesternews.co.uk	30,450	19.9	9.7
newsletter.co.uk	30,393	49.5	49.2
shieldsgazette.com	27,071	10.5	0
dorsetecho.co.uk	25,917	6.7	6.3
www.nwemail.co.uk	22,409	12.7	50.8
hartlepoolmail.co.uk	21,471	27	0.9
Norwich Evening News	19,235	29	17.7
Visiter.co.uk	17,040	32.2	18.6
www.jobstoday.co.uk	13,891	-4.1	-36.6
www.timesandstar.co.uk	5,127	73.6	143.1
www.whitehavennews.co.uk	3,864	50.6	162.7
www.hexhamcourant.co.uk	2,909	19.6	43.9
www.cumberlandnews.co.uk	1,379	57.8	43.9
www.in-cumbria.com	809	-8.4	9
www.cumbrialive.co.uk	726	14.9	26.7
www.inthebay.co.uk	469	-5.3	8.8