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May 20, 2016updated 31 May 2016 11:11am

Website ABCs: Express fastest growing website as Independent unharmed by print closure

By Press Gazette

The Express was the fastest growing national newspaper website in April, up 79 per cent year on year to 1.4m unique browsers per day.

The latest figures from ABC reveal that the closure of The Independent print edition (and loss of around 100 journalists) has not stopped the growth of the surviving Independent website. It grew 41 per cebnt year on year to 3.3m unique browsers per day, making it the fastest grower at the quality end of the market.

Mail Online continues to lead the field with just over 14m unique browser per day from around the world.

UK news website ABC figures for April 2016 (source: ABC)

Title 16-Apr MoM% YoY%
MailOnline 14,039,907 -2.44 2.94
theguardian.com 9,296,081 5.38 29.04
Mirror Group Nationals 4,565,253 2.47 22.17
Telegraph 4,127,605 -1.07 3.1
The Independent 3,284,608 6.54 40.84
The Sun 2,344,426 3.96
express.co.uk 1,400,270 14.92 79.31
Metro 1,192,826 -0.14 -8.77
dailystar.co.uk 768,589 8.83 51.19
Manchester Evening News 626,389 -5.16 25.78
Liverpool Echo 538,604 11.23 36.85
Evening Standard 492,538 -1.25 25.83
Wales Online 292,880 -16.51 32.24
Chronicle Live 219,536 -3.91 19.87
Birmingham Mail 210,306 1.66 13.72
Teesside Evening Gazette 107,086 -12.29 33.94
Daily Post (Wales) 84,590 1.74 55.63
Coventry Telegraph 60,193 -1.79 22.4
Huddersfield Daily Examiner 52,978 -15.55 15.47
Get Surrey 45,070 -5.43
Get Reading 43,852 3.06
Visiter.co.uk 9,395 -29.21

 

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