The Independent was the fastest growing national newspaper website in December and the only site to record a month-on-month increase in traffic, according to figures released by ABC.

The Independent, which relaunched its website at the start of November, grew its global audience by 16.5 per cent to 15.8m unique browsers.

Mail Online remained the top UK national newspaper website with 84.1m unique browsers, a slight month-on-month dip which is unsurprising for the holiday month of December.

Read more at the Press Gazette.