Express.co.uk had a successful August, according to the latest ABC results, up nearly 17% period on period to 2.6 million daily average unique browsers, following on from last month’s good increase.
In addition, dailystar.co.uk also saw average unique browsers increase by nearly 8% period on period, breaking the 1 million mark.
Meanwhile, continuing from last month’s 15% decline, the Evening Standard’s web traffic fell again in August 2017, down nearly 8% to 780,000 daily average unique browsers.
MailOnline continues to be by far the largest online news offering, with over 14 million daily average unique browsers, despite a 6% decrease period on period.
Elsewhere, the Sun increased by 5.7% and the Independent up 6.3%.
| ABC online newspapers – Aug 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Aug 17 daily average unique browsers | Jul 17 daily average unique browsers | Actual change | % change |
| MailOnline | 14,068,817 | 15,027,746 | -958,929 | -6.38 |
| Trinity Mirror Group – Digital | 9,712,571 | 9,790,227 | -77,656 | -0.79 |
| The Independent | 6,525,514 | 6,140,183 | 385,331 | 6.28 |
| The Sun | 5,350,725 | 5,060,122 | 290,603 | 5.74 |
| Mirror Group Nationals | 5,110,009 | 5,236,761 | -126,752 | -2.42 |
| Trinity Mirror Regional Network | 4,915,058 | 4,954,889 | -39,831 | -0.80 |
| express.co.uk | 2,640,333 | 2,262,239 | 378,094 | 16.71 |
| Metro | 2,337,194 | 2,423,735 | -86,541 | -3.57 |
| dailystar.co.uk | 1,040,213 | 965,174 | 75,039 | 7.77 |
| Manchester Evening News | 951,812 | 956,752 | -4,940 | -0.52 |
| Liverpool Echo | 796,714 | 743,349 | 53,365 | 7.18 |
| Evening Standard | 780,113 | 845,288 | -65,175 | -7.71 |
| Wales Online | 423,835 | 443,455 | -19,620 | -4.42 |
| Birmingham Mail | 400,978 | 404,988 | -4,010 | -0.99 |
| Chronicle Live | 296,428 | 312,834 | -16,406 | -5.24 |
| Bristol Post | 155,673 | 166,126 | -10,453 | -6.29 |
| Hull Daily Mail | 134,072 | 132,135 | 1,937 | 1.47 |
| GazetteLive | 129,721 | 131,308 | -1,587 | -1.21 |
| Nottingham Post | 119,585 | 121,155 | -1,570 | -1.30 |
| Daily Post (Wales) | 115,484 | 125,115 | -9,631 | -7.70 |
| Coventry Telegraph | 109,935 | 108,731 | 1,204 | 1.11 |
| Leicester Mercury | 99,590 | 95,739 | 3,851 | 4.02 |
| Stoke Sentinel | 99,540 | 92,751 | 6,789 | 7.32 |
| Plymouth Herald | 98,912 | 102,311 | -3,399 | -3.32 |
| Derby Telegraph | 97,430 | 97,395 | 35 | 0.04 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 82,163 | 84,019 | -1,856 | -2.21 |
| Get Surrey | 74,455 | 78,721 | -4,266 | -5.42 |
| Cambridge News | 63,150 | 67,304 | -4,154 | -6.17 |
| Get Reading | 61,374 | 57,317 | 4,057 | 7.08 |
| Grimsby Telegraph | 50,058 | 43,600 | 6,458 | 14.81 |
| Visiter.co.uk | 16,374 | 18,217 | -1,843 | -10.12 |
| theguardian.com | na* | na* | na* | na* |
| * 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. | ||||
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