… We’d say a big thank you to the 56,674 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in May.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 June 2010 – 31 May 2011) to 531,005, 5.8% more than the equivalent figure for 2009-10 of 501,773.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

1. Opinion: However unfair it is, Chris Huhne should step down (105 comments) by Simon McGrath
2. Chris Huhne’s election expenses: once again, nothing to see here, move along (60 comments) by Mark Pack
3. Black Friday for Lib Dems: it’s worse than we thought (87 comments) by Stephen Tall
4. Dealing with the political weather: three lessons to learn (18 comments) by Mark Pack
5. Ouch! Lib Dems suffer first anti-government backlash in 80 years (80 comments) by Stephen Tall

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

• Google
• Twitter
• Guido Fawkes
• Daily Email alerts
• Facebook.com

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* Google Analytics’ term: it broadly means people using about 56,000 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).