… We’d say a big thank you to the 58,552 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in March.

That’s a huge 77% increase on our Feb. ’10 figure of c.34,000, and we are up some 125% on the equivalent figure for March ’09 of c.26,000.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 April 2009 – 31 March 2010) to 345,223, over 45% higher than the equivalent figure for 2008-09 of 237,536.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

1. Lord Clement-Jones on the Digital Economy Bill: web blocking amendment (246) by Tim Clement-Jones
2. Ooops! Mirror gets poll graph wrong and inflates Labour’s position (14) by Mark Pack
3. Election purdah period: what can and can’t be done? (0) by Mark Pack
4. Will £66,000 expenses claim sink Dawn Butler? (7) by Mark Pack
5. Roberta Blackman-Woods – desperately sabre-rattling on her MP’s expenses (2) by Stephen Tall

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

• Google
• Twitter
• Guido Fawkes
• Iain Dale
• Lib Dem Blogs aggregator

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* Google Analytics’ term: it broadly means people using almost 60,000 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).