… We’d say a big thank you to the 62,745 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in October.

That’s a notch up on our September figure of c.61,000, and double the equivalent figure for October ’09 of c.30,000.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 Nov 2009 – 31 Oct 2010) to 651,902, getting on for double the equivalent figure for 2008-09 of 353,311.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

1. Nick Clegg writes to Lib Dem MPs over tuition fees (180) by The Voice
2. Vince Cable’s statement on tuition fees (151) by The Voice
3. 10 things you may not have noticed from the Labour leadership results (24) by Simon McGrath
4. Vince: why I’m saying ‘No’ to the graduate tax (97) by Stephen Tall
5. The Browne Review and university funding: what’s likely to happen next… (40) by Stephen Tall

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

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

Whether you’re a regular here, or an occasional ‘popper-by’, we’re delighted you looked in.

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* Google Analytics’ term: it broadly means people using about 62,000 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).