With 1,500 articles a day, Mail Online is the UK's largest news site.

With the internet giving newsrooms the ability to publish thousands of stories a day, how do the UK's top news outlets compare when it comes to coverage and topics?

With nearly 1,500 articles daily, Mail Online is the largest news site in the UK. Image 1 — Photo: SS

Press Gazette (PG) tracked the content published on the RSS feeds of eight major UK news sites over the week of September 13-19. While the amount of content varies depending on the time of year, the number of reporters present and the intensity of the news agenda, PG wanted to get a snapshot of what the UK’s biggest newsrooms produce in a week.

As a result, Mail Online published the most content of any newsroom under review. Between 13 and 19 September, Mail Online published an average of 1,490 stories a day, or 14 stories an hour from Monday to Friday.

On Saturdays and Sundays, the outlet publishes an average of 1,114 stories a day. Most newsrooms have fewer reporters on duty on weekends. The paper’s owner, DMGT, said in 2020 that it published about 1,700 stories a day across its entire business.

The high-content strategy seems to be working. According to Similarweb, dailymail.co.uk had 392 million visits globally in September, making it the fifth most popular English-language news website in the world and the most popular UK-based commercial news publisher globally.

Its closest competitor is the Mirror, which publishes an average of 981 articles a weekday. The Manchester Evening News publishes an average of 160 articles a day from Monday to Friday, ranking seventh among the newspapers studied.

Hoang Ton (according to PG)

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