The Independent says:
• Unique monthly users (global): Broke the 50m mark for the first time ever, hitting 53m – up 15.4% month-on-month and 78% year-on-year
• Average daily unique users (global): 2.4m, up 12.8% month-on-month, and 74% year-on-year
• Page views (global): 184m, up 5.1% month-on-month and 60% year-on-year
• UK unique monthly users: 18.3m, up 5.5% month-in-month and 57% year-on-yea
• The pioneering i100 (audited within the main Independent figure but not broken out on the ABC certificate), recorded 2.3m monthly unique users, up a massive 25.3% from 1.9m in August. It was launched on 17 July, and also has a growing and engaged social audience with more than 34,000 Twitter followers.
• On independent.co.uk, new global traffic records were set across a number of content channels including News, Life & Style, Travel, Property, and Money.
• Record video views were also recorded on independent.co.uk, with numbers up 32% month-on-month, marking the fifth consecutive month of strong growth.
• Mobile traffic climbed 6% month-on-month increase in unique users accessing independent.co.uk on a tablet or mobile: 29m users generating 72.8m page views (41% of total), compared with 69m in August.
Christian Broughton, Digital Editor of The Independent and i100, said: “Reaching 53 million monthly unique browsers is a hugely important milestone for us. It’s a seriously big number, built on strong content from a great team, a confident editorial tone and distinct identity, a highly engaged and growing social audience, and bold innovations such as i100. But more significantly it gives us a great platform for our ambitions - there’s a lot more to come."
