World dominance

It's often hard to be sure you're comparing like with like in online statistics. New research by Comscore gives advert-supported bbc.com 73.4m unique browsers around the world, up 30% from 2012, and very close to overtaking CNN.com, at 73.6m.

The release says that year-on-year growth in the United States is 16%, moving bbc.com up to 4th place. The whole chart is not shared - where lies the Daily Mail in all this ?

Alexa stats, which measure things differently, suggest the CNN/BBC battle may be in the classroom - the BBC site has twice the national average of users at "school/college", with CNN only 50% above average.