Guardian US experienced its highest month in terms of total unique views, resulting in a second-time ranking in the top 20 of all US news and information sites, according to the latest report released by comScore.
Up nearly 23% from a year ago, Guardian US saw 35.9 million visitors across all platforms, indicating an exceptionally strong growth rate.
Ranking #16 with the coveted millennial audience, the Guardian’s growth was the second highest among all top 20 news and information sites with the 18-34 demographic.
Features and long reads drove April’s traffic, including an exclusive interview with Monica Lewinsky as part of the Guardian’s the Web We Want series, as well as an in-depth feature about a lesbian community in the California desert. Continued election coverage and analysis of pop culture news, including Beyonce’s Lemonade and Prince’s death were also highly read.
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Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com which, with 150 million unique browsers a month, is one of the largest English-speaking quality newspaper websites in the world. Since launching its US and Australia digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience.
The Guardian is most recently renowned for its Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning revelations based on the disclosures made by whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2014, the Guardian was named newspaper and website of the year at the Society of Editors UK Press Awards and is the most trusted news source in the UK (Ofcom digital media report, 2014).