10,000,000 views - Express & Star hits new high
Thanks ten million! The Express & Star's website enjoyed a record-breaking month on-line, as page views smashed through the 10 million mark for the first time.
The success comes just two months after Expressandstar.com
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With breaking news around the clock and regular transfer updates on all of our local football teams, more readers than ever logged on in July.
Star readers were the first to find out about the fire that destroyed the Jayplas recycling plant in Smethwick, bomb attacks on mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton and traffic woes across the Midlands.
And sports fans have been able to keep bang up-to-date with their team's summer signings as well as all of the transfer gossip from Wolves, Albion, Villa and Walsall.
With exclusives on Jamie O'Hara's Wolves exile and breaking news of Albion's box-office signing Nicolas Anelka, the website is a must-bookmark for fans of our region's football teams.
Our focus on social media also sees nearly 25,000 Twitter followers kept up-to-date with the latest local news as well as almost 10,000 fans on Facebook.
And with fresh content coming from our new Weekend section online, where our team of columnists give a host of opinions, there is plenty to read every day online.
With readers from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the site is popular with expats around the world with readers logging on from 214 different countries or territories across the globe.
And as the responsive website design adapts to fit whichever screen you are reading on, be it phone, tablet or desktop, it has never been easier to get your news on the go.
For those who prefer the page-turning experience of a newspaper online, our app is available on iTunes, Android and Kindle as well as a desktop edition.
Express & Star internet editor Todd Nash said: "We aim to be the first with breaking news across the region, tweeting out latest updates and moving stories on as they develop.
"Online we can offer picture galleries and video footage, as well as rolling updates on on-going situations.
"Our readers have the opportunity to have their say on the day's biggest stories and there is active debate every day on news, sport and opinion pieces.
"The website continues to go from strength-to-strength and we are delighted with the latest figures."
