Following on from a strong previous month, a 7.8% increase in web traffic meant more than 2 million people visited express.co.uk each day in April, according to the latest ABCs.
Telegraph Online also recorded a small boost in daily browsers, up 4.5%, while the Sun was up 2.7% and Trinity Mirror Regional Network up 2%.
Meanwhile, MailOnline, the most popular online news site by far, shed an insignificant 350,700 of its 15.1 million daily browsers after a -2.3% decline.
Metro’s web traffic was also down by -2.9%, while the online-only Independent was down -0.7%.
| Site | Apr 17 daily average unique browsers | March 17 daily average unique browsers | Actual change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MailOnline | 15,118,004 | 15,468,721 | -350,717 | -2.27 |
| Trinity Mirror Group – Digital | 8,880,959 | 8,867,620 | 13,339 | 0.15 |
| Mirror Group Nationals | 4,922,384 | 4,952,835 | -30,451 | -0.61 |
| The Independent | 4,763,694 | 4,796,302 | -32,608 | -0.68 |
| The Sun | 4,700,903 | 4,577,007 | 123,896 | 2.71 |
| Trinity Mirror Regional Network | 4,321,594 | 4,235,714 | 85,880 | 2.03 |
| Telegraph | 4,280,004 | 4,097,621 | 182,383 | 4.45 |
| express.co.uk | 2,042,900 | 1,895,452 | 147,448 | 7.78 |
| Metro | 1,681,174 | 1,730,529 | -49,355 | -2.85 |
| dailystar.co.uk | 942,996 | 954,464 | -11,468 | -1.20 |
| Manchester Evening News | 786,086 | 742,021 | 44,065 | 5.94 |
| Evening Standard | 756,458 | 729,459 | 26,999 | 3.70 |
| Liverpool Echo | 620,674 | 524,852 | 95,822 | 18.26 |
| Wales Online | 387,716 | 404,631 | -16,915 | -4.18 |
| Birmingham Mail | 358,843 | 359,033 | -190 | -0.05 |
| Chronicle Live | 257,976 | 270,595 | -12,619 | -4.66 |
| Hull Daily Mail | 154,759 | 130,019 | 24,740 | 19.03 |
| Nottingham Post | 117,962 | 106,496 | 11,466 | 10.77 |
| GazetteLive | 113,877 | 140,038 | -26,161 | -18.68 |
| Bristol Post | 108,967 | 101,646 | 7,321 | 7.20 |
| Daily Post (Wales) | 103,334 | 111,147 | -7,813 | -7.03 |
| glasgowlive.co.uk | 96,682 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Coventry Telegraph | 95,553 | 89,288 | 6,265 | 7.02 |
| Plymouth Herald | 90,571 | 94,962 | -4,391 | -4.62 |
| Stoke Sentinel | 89,366 | 96,193 | -6,827 | -7.10 |
| Derby Telegraph | 89,304 | 92,692 | -3,388 | -3.66 |
| Leicester Mercury | 84,740 | 86,205 | -1,465 | -1.70 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 71,373 | 74,619 | -3,246 | -4.35 |
| Get Surrey | 63,537 | 63,320 | 217 | 0.34 |
| Cambridge News | 56,956 | 58,990 | -2,034 | -3.45 |
| Grimsby Telegraph | 43,779 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Get Reading | 42,759 | 46,574 | -3,815 | -8.19 |
| Visiter.co.uk | 14,854 | 14,016 | 838 | 5.98 |
| 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.
