BBC News continues as most popular UK website
The BBC News website continues to head the Mail Online in UK online visitors, according to research compiled for Press Gazette.
The data was compiled following a survey of 50,00 people who accessed the internet at either their office or work computers, which tends to deliver lower ABC figures.
According to Nielsen, the BBC News website attracted just under 10 million UK unique readers/viewers in July – well ahead of Mail Online on 6.645m over the course of the month.
Web portal Yahoo’s news service was the top-placed web-only player with 4.1m monthly users.
Despite being behind paywalls The Times and Sunday Times attracted some 1.2m readers over the course of the month, according to the Nielsen data.
Huffington Post UK – which only launched at the beginning of July – has yet to figure in the Nielsen data.
See the top 40 list below.
Name; Unique UK audience (000s)
1 BBC News 9,992
2 MailOnline 6,645
3 Guardian.co.uk 4,622
4 Telegraph 4,394
5 Yahoo! News Websites 4,097
6 The Sun 2,916
7 Newsquest Media Group 2,877
8 Trinity Mirror Nationals 2,427
9 MSN News & Weather 2,093
10 The Independent 1,693
11 Sky News 1,530
12 METRO.co.uk 1,505
13 AOL News 1,409
14 The Times/The Sunday Times 1,211
15 Google News 1,179
16 CNN Digital Network 1,077
17 Bing News 1,024
18 MSNBC Digital Network 914
19 World News Network 795
20 London Evening Standard 693
21 News of the World 649
22 NYTimes.com 524
23 Trinity Mirror Regionals 505
24 Scotsman.com 501
25 Daily Express 408
26 France 24 403
27 Daily Star 359
28 Orange News 356
29 WalesOnline 332
30 CBS News Network 306
31 Topix 305
32 Tribune Newspapers 282
33 Belfast Telegraph 270
34 TalkTalk News 268
35 ABCNEWS Digital Network 264
36 NewsNow.co.uk 263
37 Fox News Digital Network 241
38 India Times 223
39 Economist.com 189
40 Dennis Current Affairs Network 187