THE South Wales Guardian’s online presence is booming according to the latest statistics.

Figures show that in the seven days up until midnight on Sunday, the Guardian’s website had almost 25,000 individual views.

That is an increase of more than 50 per cent over the previous three weeks - and a rise of almost 500 per cent over the past six weeks.

In addition, the Guardian website welcomed 14,476 unique visitors last week - a rise of more than 300 per cent in less than a month.

Editor Stave Adams said: “I am absolutely delighted by the rise in visitors to the Guardian's website.

"For an outlet of our size to be receiving almost 15,000 unique visitors each week - and rising every single day at a staggering rate - proves we must be doing something right.

"It's important to keep in mind that a month ago we were averaging about 5,000 visitors each week - for that to treble inside a month is nothing short of incredible."

Owned by Newsquest Media Group, which released its Jan - June 2014 ABC website audit, which reports that an average of 936,909 unique browsers accessed its network of 144 local media sites every day – year-on-year growth of 46%.

Mark Smith, Newsquest’s Digital Director said: “We’re particularly delighted with such a dramatic increase in the number of people visiting our sites each day.

We had previously been slightly ahead of our nearest peer on daily uniques but we’ve now opened up a clear gap which suggests our programme of editorial and product development is bearing fruit.”

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