News.com.au claims record breaking unique audience of 4.106m for July, up 10% on June

News.com.au retained its top spot in the online rankings amongst major news sites, with a record breaking unique audience of 4.106m, up 10 per cent compared on the site’s figures in June.

According to Nielsen, this is the highest ever monthly audience for a website in the current events & global news sub-category, and it is the first time a site has broken the 4m unique audience per month barrier.

Fairfax Media’s smh.com.au held onto its second place ranking despite a drop of 1 per cent to a a unique audience of 3.423m. In June the website had a unique audience of 3.464m.

Nielsen online ratings: June 2015 and July 2015