UK’s Mail Online has achieved a new milestone by recording more than 77 million unique views in the month of May.

The web-based version of UK’s daily newspaper The Daily Mail recorded more than 77 million unique users from the UK, the United States and other countries, the publication said on Thursday.

Mail Online emerged as the market leader ahead of Guardian. co. uk at the second spot with more than 50 million monthly unique visitors. Other sites including, Telegraph. co. uk, Independent. co. uk and Mirror Group Digital all recorded double digit growths in the number of viewers.

Mail Online recorded a rise of 21.4% in daily unique viewers, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic figures published on Thursday. In terms of the number of viewers, it grew from 63.75 million – to 77,250,993 in May.