All national newspaper websites reporting officially audited figures except Independent.co.uk saw their traffic fall month on month in December, with guardian.co.uk suffering the biggest decline.

Guardian.co.uk, the Guardian News & Media website network that includes MediaGuardian, recorded a 20.61% dip in daily online browsers to 2,937,070 in December, traditionally a quiet news month.

The Guardian's month-on-month decline, exacerbated by comparison with a record traffic high in November, nevertheless represented a 31.45% increase compared with December 2010, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures published on Thursday.

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