It recorded a similar leap in monthly unique users (UK), up 6.5% from September to a new high of 19.6min October, a year-on-year increase of 50% from 13m, says the Independent.
Meanwhile, global average daily unique users rose to 2.4m, up a staggering 87% from 1.3m last year.
Similarly, global unique monthly users have grown 85% year on year to 53.3m, up from 28.7m in October 2013.
On Independent.co.uk, new global traffic records were set across a number of content channels including News, Arts & Entertainment, Travel, and IndyBest.
Mobile traffic continued to climb, with 29.6m users accessing the site from a mobile or tablet device (55.7% of all users), generating 74.3m page views (40% of the total) – the largest percentage of mobile traffic to date.
Christian Broughton, Digital Editor of The Independent and i100, said: “The Independent.co.uk consistently delivers strong results and October was no exception. These figures are testament to the quality content generated by our editorial and digital teams and power of our cross-platform approach, coupled with innovations e.g. i100, to entice new readers."
