April ABCes: Guardian takes top spot with 27m unique users

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Guardian.co.uk regained poll position in the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) unique user figures for April.

The site recorded a month-on-month rise of 4.14 per cent to 27,324,209 uniques; while last month's leader Telegraph.co.uk posted a 13.83 per cent drop in unique users to 23,875,251.

The Guardian, Mirror Group and Independent were the only titles to increase unique user numbers in April. Mail Online, Times Online and The Sun all recorded slight drops. Having taken the top spot in February's ABCes, Sun Online's figures now place it behind News International stablemate Times Online in terms of uniques.

The full figures for the six audited titles and Mirror Group's websites are listed below. The percentage in brackets indicates the month-on-month change compared with

March's ABCe report:

Telegraph.co.uk

Unique users: 23,875,251 (-13.83 per cent); +28.04 per cent year-on-year

Guardian.co.uk

Unique users: 27,324,309 (+4.14 per cent);  +47.33 per cent year-on-year

Mail Online

Unique users: 23,153,003 (-2.59 per cent); + 28.34 per cent year-on-year

Times Online

Unique users: 21,585,569 (-0.13 per cent);  +40.11 per cent year-on-year

TheSun.co.uk

Unique users: 20,567,178 (-3.21 per cent); +46.19 per cent year-on-year

Independent.co.uk

Unique users: 10,432,660 (+3.97 per cent); +63.19 per cent year-on-year

Mirror Group

Unique users: 8,596,963 (+20.44 per cent); +100.98 per cent year-on-year