was typically attracting around 1.45 million average daily browsers in the months before the arrival of the extra edition of the paper on 26 February.
It hit a high of 1.56 million that month before dropping back to 1.49 million in March.
April’s figures show the big two of the online newspaper sector, and , once again outgunning the competition.
MailOnline’s daily average browsers jumped 4.4% from March to 5.65 million and Guardian.co.uk’s figure increased 4.2% to 3.88 million.
They pushed ahead of , which dropped 3% to 2.34 million.
Among the smaller players Mirror Group Digital piled back on the audience after a couple of bad months following the relaunch of the in February.
Its daily average browsers surged 13.2% from March to 660,672, which is still down 25% from its January figure of 882,972 (its highest to date).
managed to stay just ahead after an 8% boost on March to 695,992.
Its Evening Standard stablemate, , is down to just 110,611 after an 8.2% month-on-month fall, its lowest figure since 2009.
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| Daily avg. | Monthly total | Mth/mth | Yr/yr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MailOnline | 5,653,577 | 90,309,252 | 4.42 | 57.22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metro | 335,390 | 8,049,098 | 2.32 | n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Standard.co.uk | 110,611 | 2,518,207 | -8.23 | n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| guardian.co.uk | 3,876,212 | N/A | 4.17 | 61.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Independent | 695,992 | 15,043,267 | 8.02 | 18.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mirror Group Digital | 660,672 | 13,682,364 | 13.17 | 4.69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Sun | 1,530,704 | 25,070,209 | 2.82 | n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telegraph | 2,343,120 | 44,892,746 | -3.04 | 21.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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