Most of the UK's regional newspaper websites saw strong traffic growth in the last six months of 2011, according to figures released today by ABC.

The big four regional publishers also took the top four spots in terms of group web traffic.

Trinity Mirror was top with average daily unique browsers in the period of 469,707 (up 12.2 per cent year on year), next was Johnston Press on 452,380 uniques a day (up 13 per cent), Newsquest had 449,121 a day (up 13.6 per cent) and Northcliffe had 302,463 (up 5.4 per cent).