Mail Online was the nation’s most read online national newspaper in February, according to data released by ABCe.

Google has once again proved to be the most popular destination for the UK’s online users. According to data released by UKOM, the brand had a unique audience of 33 million people over the month of August.

The daily national newspaper market was down slightly period on period in February, by 0.3%, although year on year it suffered a 5.3% drop.

The UK’s online audience grew by just under 2 million people in the past year according to data released by research company Kantar Media.

Google was the most visited website in the UK in January, according to the first data release from online measurement company UKOM.

Guardian.co.uk remains the UK’s most popular national news website audited by ABC, despite losing one million unique browsers since December 09 when it reported an all time high of nearly 37 million.

The ABC has today released circulation data for regional newspapers, revealing declines for the majority of newspaper groups and individual titles.

NRS figures for January to December 2009 reveal year on year readership growth for titles in the Quality and Popular sectors, while one title in the Mid-Market remained relatively static

The daily national newspaper market managed to boost its total circulation in January, up by 1.1% period on period.

The latest ABC figures, for Jul-Dec 2009, show that the two Future Publishing titles in the computer sector were both down year on year.