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Expressandstar.com has smashed through a new milestone - with more than half a million readers each week.

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Official figures reveal that we're now being visited by an average of 106,231 browsers every day, and 533,085 each week.

The stats, from the Audited Bureau of Circulation, show that nearly TWO MILLION visitors worldwide are dropping in to the website on average each month.

That's a whopping 67 per cent up on the same period last year. June this year was our best month ever, with 2.1m visitors.

Our coverage of January's transfer day deadline got the website off to a great start in 2014, with 75,000 views of our detailed coverage.

Our transfer deadline day coverage was a big hit

Our live council election results service was viewed more than 50,000 times as we provided coverage throughout the night as the Tories and Lib Dems took a battering from UKIP.

And we're leading the way with hyperlocal coverage with our new Trusted Voices section, giving a voice to community bloggers on our huge platform.

Residents, experts, politicians and people from the emergency services are all featured in our section that will be expanding rapidly.

Expats around the world are staying in touch with developments back home, with hundreds of thousands of clicks from the US, Australia, Spain, Canada. Figures show we've even had visits from the Vatican City and tiny Norfolk Island in the Pacific.

Acting head of digital editorial Mike Woods said: "It's a fantastic achievement for expressandstar.com. We're setting the benchmark for breaking news and sports stories right across our region, whether it be crime, politics or the latest movements at Molineux and the Hawthorns.

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"We've got more people than ever working to make the site better, with richer content such as videos, pictures, social media content, polls and quizzes.

"And we're getting more back from readers than ever before. Whether it's the thousands of pictures we've received to our Star Witness showcase of readers' photos, or the reports of breaking stories direct from our army of Twitter followers.

"Our dedicated team of web developers are constantly innovating and working on ways to improve the experience for readers. We led the way with responsive website design, meaning expressandstar.com looks beautiful on all devices from mobile phones to desktops.

"From our Live News homepage feed to a much improved way of readers getting their Star Witness pictures to us, they are staying ahead of the tech curve.

"We've got more great content and improvements coming to the website over the coming months, so keep clicking."

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