… We’d say a big thank you to the 39,604 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in June. This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 July 2010 – 30 June 2011) to 522,590.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

1. Andrew Reeves passes away (38) by Mark Pack
2. Response: Chair of Federal Conference Committee on increased security measures (153) by Andrew Wiseman
3. Why Simon Kelner is wrong to defend Johann Hari (27) by Stephen Tall
4. Opinion: Why you should be taking Lembit Opik seriously (61) by Richard Clare
5. Liberal Democrats receive Queen’s Birthday Honours (8) by Helen Duffett

And the top 5 traffic sources for Lib Dem Voice in June were:

• Google
• Twitter
• Daily Email alerts
• Facebook.com
• Members’ Forum

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* Google Analytics’ term: it broadly means people using almost 40,000 different computers visited LDV at least once. Some people may be counted more than once (eg, home and work computer), whilst some people may not be counted (eg, two different people use the same computer, or someone reads the site through a feed reader without ever actually visiting it).