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ABC: Mirror records largest growth in online traffic in June

Traffic to Mirror Group Digital websites rise by 11 per cent while NSA and Snowden fuel fourth record month for Guardian.co.uk

Posted by Alastair Reid on 25/07/13

Traffic to Evening Standard website up 20% in May

The Standard's website records largest increase for monthly and daily visitors across UK news outlets in May

Posted by Alastair Reid on 20/06/13

Sharp web traffic rises in April for Metro and Mirror

Mirror Group Digital experienced a 30 per cent traffic rise in April, while Metro reported an increase of more than 25 per cent for the second month running

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23/05/13

ABC: Metro records 27% traffic rise in March

The Metro and Standard record highest increases in monthly web traffic in March

Posted by Alastair Reid on 25/04/13

Evening Standard web traffic fell almost 20% in February

ABC results for the shorter month recorded declines in monthly unique browsers for all but one of the audited newspaper websites

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21/03/13

ABC releases online traffic stats for local newspaper websites

The report shows Iliffe News and Media, which was bought by Local World at the end of last year, recorded more than 1 million unique browsers a month on average across the network in the second half of 2012

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 27/02/13

Evening Standard web traffic grew almost 43% in January

According to Audit Bureau of Circulation results published today the London Evening Standard saw a 42.5 per cent increase in monthly traffic

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 21/02/13

ABC: Metro sees 32% drop in online traffic in December

Metro recorded a month-on-month drop of 32.24 per cent in December last year, following the launch of its new responsive site which it says is 'normal with any redesign of this size'

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 24/01/13

Telegraph reports highest increase in web traffic for October

The website saw monthly unique browsers increase from 51.4 million in September to 56.9 million in October

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 22/11/12

ABC August: Mail Online traffic above 100m for first time

Daily Mail website has 8 per cent increase in unique browsers compared to July, taking it to just under 106 million in August

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20/09/12

ABC: All regional news groups record rises in web traffic

Johnston Press-owned Sunderlandecho.com and Portsmouth.co.uk both saw more than 40 per cent increases in average monthly unique users for the first half of this year compared with the first half of 2011

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 29/08/12

Standard.co.uk records 32% traffic hike in July

Standard.co.uk recorded the highest month-on-month increase in web traffic for July, according to the latest ABC results, as well as the biggest increase in average daily browsers

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 23/08/12

ABC: Future's T3 tablet edition records top digital circulation

According to ABC, the T3 iPad edition reported the highest digital circulation, with an issue average of more than 17,000 paid-for downloads of the magazine

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 16/08/12

Mail only audited UK news site to see traffic rise in June

Mail Online saw a monthly traffic increase of 2.24 per cent, reaching nearly 94 million visitors last month

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 26/07/12

Standard.co.uk traffic up 33% in May after recent dip

The Evening Standard saw the highest increases in monthly and daily traffic, following two months of declines in monthly unique browsers

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 21/06/12

April ABCs: Sun on Sunday down while Sun circulation rises

The latest Audit Bureau of Circulation report also show for the first time the higher Saturday circulations recorded for most morning titles

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 11/05/12

ABC March: Evening Standard daily web traffic drops 25%

Latest figures from Audit Bureau of Circulation show the Evening Standard also recorded the biggest fall in traffic for the whole month of 21.79 per cent, the same month as it relaunched the website

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/04/12

ABC to report weekday and Saturday paper circulations

Newspaper circulation auditor announces changes to reporting of national newspaper circulation data for 'greater detail and transparency'

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 11/04/12

Guardian website reports record 69m browsers in Feb

The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation show the Sun website was the only one to record an increase in total monthly traffic, although the Guardian claims its unaudited results also show a rise for Guardian.co.uk

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 23/03/12

February ABCs: Daily Star Sunday doubles circulation in one year

Monthly circulation falls across the board for all newspapers except the i, Sunday Mail and Daily Record

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 09/03/12

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Posted by Sarah Marshall on 13 April 2012

ABCes: Independent.co.uk records biggest increase in daily browsers

The Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) report for September showed the biggest month-on-month increase in average daily browsers was recorded by Independent.co.uk

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 October 2010

paidContent: Decline in consumer magazine circulations slows

PaidContent reports consumer magazines are experiencing an increase in advertising pages and circulation fall is leveling out

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 August 2010

Brand Republic: FT withdraws from ABCe audits for web traffic

Financial Times has officially withdrawn from the monthly audit of UK newspapers' web traffic after launching its own own metric for measuring readers

Posted by Laura Oliver on 21 May 2010

Regional online traffic compared; Johnston Press comes out top

Johnston Press was top of the traffic charts from July-December 2009, with 384,016 daily unique browsers

Posted by Judith Townend on 25 February 2010

NMA: How pay walls could affect the ABCes

How will website traffic measurement be affected by the introduction of pay walls? Suzanne Bearne considers the impact on UK newspaper websites

Posted by Laura Oliver on 6 January 2010

Response to the ABCs results: How are mag subscriptions and sales faring in the recession?

Online magazine retailer The Magazine Group says subscription sales are increasing after ABC figures show a fall in retail sales

Posted by Helen Martin on 17 August 2009

ABC continues to verify airline copies for national newspaper circulation audit

ABC is continuing to investigate 'bulk newspaper sales' and the number of airline copies included in the audit after figures were found to have 'a wide disparity'

Posted by Judith Townend on 8 May 2009

Guardian debuts six-monthly ABCe figures for regional websites

Guardian News and Media joins Northcliffe Media by signing up for the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic's (ABCe) six-monthly web traffic audits

Posted by Laura Oliver on 30 September 2008

RMRF: Trinity Mirror Regionals presents user profile survey results

Trinity Mirror Regionals (TMR) carried out audience research with Survey Interactive, which involved on-site questionnaires completed by 53,313 interviewees across the company's 110 regional and national websites

Posted by Laura Oliver on 25 September 2008

Independent.co.uk: Gossip sites put heat on celeb mags in latest ABCs

Sales of celebrity magazines have plunged in the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations - a result of the economic downturn and the rising popularity of online competitors

Posted by Laura Oliver on 15 August 2008

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