guardian.co.uk, formerly known as
Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the
Guardian Media Group. It contains nearly all of the content of the newspapers
The Guardian and
The Observer, as well as a substantial body of web-only work produced by its own staff, including a rolling news service.
It is one of the world's leading online newspapers, becoming the first UK newspaper to attract more than 25 million unique users in a month (October 2008).[1] On 7 July 2005, following the London bombings, 1.3 million unique users visited the site and a total of 7.8 million pages were viewed, a record for guardian.co.uk.[2]
It is the most popular news website in the UK, as of October 2009 [3]
The site is made up of a core news site, plus a network of niche websites covering subjects including media, sport, education and the public sector. guardian.co.uk is notable for its engagement with readers, including long-running talkboards and, more recently, a network of weblogs. Its seven blogs were joined on March 14, 2006 by a new comment site, Comment is free, named after the famous quote by The Guardian editor, C. P. Scott. Both the talkboards and blogs accept comments without pre-moderation, although all now require registration for comments.
