
MailOnline continues to reign supreme among national newspaper websites, recovering from its dip the previous month by luring more overseas and UK visitors.
However, its closest rivals, Guardian.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk, also had strong months.
The MailOnline website reported a record 3,661,666 daily average browsers in March, up 16.5% on the previous month, according to the latest data from ABCe.
On a monthly measurement, MailOnline, which includes content from the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, attracted 66 million visitors, compared to 50.9 million in February.
The bulk of these increased monthly visitors to MailOnline came from overseas.
Just over 21 million came from the UK, up from 19.2 million the previous month. Over 44 million came from overseas in March.
Likewise, Guardian.co.uk had a strong month, up 10.7% from February to 2,722,490 daily average browsers. On a monthly measurement, Guardian.co.uk recorded 49.2 million visitors.
UK visitor numbers rose from 15.8 million to 18.8 million. Overseas visitors were 30.8 million in March.
A Guardian News & Media (GNM) spokesperson, said: "The Guardian's online coverage of breaking news in March, such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, resulted in both new and repeated browsers to guardian.co.uk, and led to an extremely high number of video plays."
, in a bid to cater for their American readerships.
Telegraph.co.uk remains in third place, reporting 1,995,655 daily average browsers, up 7.8% on February. It reported 40.1 million monthly users, up 22.2%.
Today's figures follow March data from online traffic measurement company Comscore showing MailOnline is now the second largest English-speaking newspaper website in the world after the New York Times.
ABCe Results March 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March | Month / month | Year / year | March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Online title | Global Daily Ave | Daily % change | Daily % change | Global monthly total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MailOnline | 3,661,666 | 16.50 | 62.98 | 65,997,230 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
guardian.co.uk | 2,722,490 | 10.67 | 46.98 | 49,176,766 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Telegraph | 1,995,655 | 7.78 | 28.16 | 40,139,803 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Independent | 605,328 | -2.56 | 35.85 | 13,358,598 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mirror Group Digital | 537,355 | -2.00 | 14.89 | 11,418,514 |