While a number of online news sites recorded a decline in traffic in February, the Independent’s digital audience was up by 13.3%, taking its total to almost 5.5 million.
February’s figures follow a difficult-to-beat January, however, which saw all digital news sites reported a spike in traffic.
Alongside the Indy, Metro also performed well with a 7.5% increase in traffic, while the Sun was up 3.8%.
Down -11.2%, Dailystar.co.uk was hit hardest, followed by the Derby Telegraph which lost a little over 10% of its online audience.
Meanwhile, Trinity Mirror was down -3.5% compared with the previous month, while its overall digital portfolio, including regional titles, was down -2.1%.
| Site | February 17 daily average unique browsers | January 17 daily average unique browsers | Actual change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MailOnline | 15,564,992 | 15,641,619 | -76,627 | -0.49 |
| Trinity Mirror Group – Digital | 9,290,626 | 9,492,715 | -202,089 | -2.13 |
| The Independent | 5,472,724 | 4,830,779 | 641,945 | 13.29 |
| Mirror Group Nationals | 5,263,527 | 5,453,722 | -190,195 | -3.49 |
| The Sun | 4,410,613 | 4,247,921 | 162,692 | 3.83 |
| Trinity Mirror Regional Network | 4,367,425 | 4,385,175 | -17,750 | -0.40 |
| Telegraph | 4,069,576 | 4,044,489 | 25,087 | 0.62 |
| Metro | 1,710,757 | 1,590,809 | 119,948 | 7.54 |
| express.co.uk | 1,599,442 | 1,637,521 | -38,079 | -2.33 |
| dailystar.co.uk | 882,173 | 993,425 | -111,252 | -11.20 |
| Manchester Evening News | 758,367 | 785,747 | -27,380 | -3.48 |
| Evening Standard | 674,830 | 664,843 | 9,987 | 1.50 |
| Liverpool Echo | 531,689 | 555,616 | -23,927 | -4.31 |
| Wales Online | 404,572 | 381,989 | 22,583 | 5.91 |
| Birmingham Mail | 337,039 | 357,713 | -20,674 | -5.78 |
| Chronicle Live | 254,026 | 277,533 | -23,507 | -8.47 |
| Hull Daily Mail | 138,985 | 129,197 | 9,788 | 7.58 |
| GazetteLive | 126,381 | 134,347 | -7,966 | -5.93 |
| Daily Post (Wales) | 121,509 | 99,963 | 21,546 | 21.55 |
| Bristol Post | 112,328 | 112,586 | -258 | -0.23 |
| Nottingham Post | 109,769 | 113,624 | -3,855 | -3.39 |
| Stoke Sentinel | 100,739 | 91,204 | 9,535 | 10.45 |
| Plymouth Herald | 96,390 | 94,161 | 2,229 | 2.37 |
| Leicester Mercury | 87,770 | 83,230 | 4,540 | 5.45 |
| Coventry Telegraph | 85,232 | 86,979 | -1,747 | -2.01 |
| Derby Telegraph | 80,629 | 89,697 | -9,068 | -10.11 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 79,685 | 85,190 | -5,505 | -6.46 |
| Get Surrey | 72,953 | 58,660 | 14,293 | 24.37 |
| South Wales Evening Post | 62,839 | 67,178 | -4,339 | -6.46 |
| Cambridge News | 51,800 | 52,144 | -344 | -0.66 |
| Get Reading | 50,058 | 45,404 | 4,654 | 10.25 |
| Grimsby Telegraph | 43,781 | 46,904 | -3,123 | -6.66 |
| Visiter.co.uk | 13,638 | 14,731 | -1,093 | -7.42 |
| theguardian.com | na* | na* | na* | na* |
ABC. * theguardian.com is not included in this month?s ABC Web Traffic Certification as it transitions to a new data analytics provider that does not currently supply ABC with sufficient data for an audit.
