February ABCes: Sun tops unique users with 27m; Guardian falls to third

The Sun's website attracted the most unique users last month of the six national newspaper titles audited by Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) according to the February 2009 report.

TheSun.co.uk recorded 27,327,957 unique users for the month - a month-on-month increase of 24.7 per cent, leaping from fifth to first place in the rankings.

A slight month-on-month rise in unique users (1 per cent) for Telegraph.co.uk saw the title maintain second spot with 26,169,362.

Last month all the audited national newspaper sites recorded growth with the Guardian nearing 30 million unique users. But February's unique users for Guardian.co.uk fell by 4,480,588 to 25,331,083.

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 January's ABCe report:

Guardian.co.uk
Unique users: 25,331,083 (-15.03 per cent); +29.77 per cent year-on-year

Telegraph.co.uk
Unique users: 26,169,362 (+1.02 per cent);  +113.04 per cent year-on-year

Mail Online
Unique users: 21,842,107 (-4.53 per cent); +28.22 per cent year-on-year

Times Online
Unique users: 21,989,288 (-3.97 per cent); +51.93 per cent year-on-year

TheSun.co.uk
Unique users:  27,327,957 (+24.72 per cent);  +118.15 per cent year-on-year

Independent.co.uk
Unique users: 9,371,644 (-8.48 per cent); +103.51 per cent year-on-year

Mirror Group
Unique users:  6,987,103 (+5.12 per cent); +83 per cent year-on-year

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