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MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk) is the name of the website of the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the United Kingdom. It contains almost all the stories from the Daily Mail and includes a large archive of main stories. The Daily Mail's sister paper, The Mail on Sunday, has its own website.

Reach

The website reached 78,994,874 unique web browsers in October 2011, up from 66 million in March 2011), according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, putting the site ahead of guardian.co.uk and all other similar sites. That figure may also make it the UK's most popular news site, putting it ahead of the estimated 60 million unique browsers that BBC News Online receives (the BBC not being covered by the Audit Bureau of Circulations).

Globally it is the most visited newspaper website, according to ComScore, whose methodology gave the site 50.1 million unique visitors for October 2012, ahead of the previous leader, The New York Times' site, which received 48.7 million visitors in the same month.

According to comScore, in January 2011 MailOnline was the most popular online news site. MailOnline received 45.348 million unique visitors, with the New York Times second at 44.787 million.

Content

MailOnline devotes much of its content to news and entertainment in the United States; this emphasis is in contrast to the print edition of the Daily Mail, which has no presence there.

MailOnline allows users to comment on articles and moderates such comments. The house rules state that the monitors usually remove inappropriate content in full, though they do reserve the right to edit comments. The site also does not allow comments on some articles for legal reasons.

Claimed inaccuracies

• September 2009: Geek.com reported that story about solar panel made from human hair, published in MailOnline, is a hoax. Experienced engineer Edward Craig Hyatt proved that it is not possible to use human hair in any configuration to generate electrical energy when exposed to light.
• June 2010: The Guardian reported that MailOnline had published an inaccurate story about an iPhone 4 recall, based on a Twitter message from a parody account by a Steve Jobs impersonator. MailOnline realised its error and removed the article.
• In October 2011, MailOnline and several other newspapers prematurely published standby articles on Amanda Knox's trial reporting an upholding of the guilty verdict before the judge finished announcing the reversal of the guilty verdict. MailOnline removed the article within 90 seconds and apologized, and the error was the subject of a Press Complaints Commission complaint that noted the article's reporting of reactions that had not taken place and said that was "not acceptable" but commented positively on the handling of the error.
• January 2012: ABC News Radio informed that Ad Age found the fake story about Rihanna's campaign for Armani seemed to have originated with MailOnline. Other publications, including Huffington Post, then published the same story. The Huffington Post has removed the story and apologized.
• January 2012: Robert Hart-Fletcher, of the charity "Kids and Media", told BeefJack, a gaming magazine, that quotes attributed to him were 'completely fabricated' across a range of British media, most prominently the Daily Mail and the BBC. In fact, he says, gaming can be an extremely beneficial activity for children to partake in.
• April 2012: MailOnline published an article about a dentist who extracted her ex-boyfriend's teeth; the piece was later exposed as a hoax by MSNBC.com. The article appeared under the byline of reporter Simon Tomlinson, who said he does not know where the story came from.
• April 2012: The Christian Science Monitor reported that MailOnline used an opinion article published in the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper. A Hosni Mubarak supporter wrote about a possible legalization of necrophilia, similar to that proposed by a Moroccan cleric several years ago. MailOnline picked the opinion and reported it as fact. According to Dan Murphy, "The chances of any such piece of legislation being considered by the Egyptian parliament for a vote is zero." The report of a proposed sex-after-death law have been debunked as false and "complete nonsense" by Egyptian parliamentary officials.
• October 2012: Nicolas Cage has received an apology and damages for false story about his alleged tax troubles published in the Daily Mail's online edition.

Sources

In March 2012, the Poynter Institute published an article saying that MailOnline did not always attribute its stories to the sources from which they were taken. Martin Clarke, editor of MailOnline, said, "We will soon be introducing features that will allow us to link easily and prominently to other sites when further recognition of source material is needed."

References

1. "Dailymail.co.uk Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
2. Ponsford, Dominic (2011-04-28). "ABC: Mail Online hits 66m monthly browsers". PressGazette. London. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
3. Ponsford, Dominic (2011-11-24). "Mail Online hits new record with 79m unique browsers". PressGazette. London. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
4. Ponsford, Dominic (2011-02-24). "Mail Online hits 56m web users and has only BBC to beat". PressGazette. London. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
5. Durrani, Arif (2011-04-19). "MailOnline overtakes Huffington Post to become world's no 2". MediaWeek. London. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
6. "MailOnline is world's number one: Daily Mail has biggest newspaper website with 45.348 million unique users | MailOnline". Dailymail.co.uk. 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
7. "House rules". MailOnline. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
8. "Terms and conditions of use". MailOnline. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
9. "Reader Comments Security". MailOnline. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
10. "Is there something in the hair? The tale of a solar cell made with human hair". gizmag.com. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
11. "Nepal inventor creates a solar panel using human hair [Updated]". geek.com. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
12. "Nepal Human Hair Solar Panel Hoax". Retrieved 12 January 2013.
13. Charles Arthur (28 June 2010). "Daily Mail fooled by fake Steve Jobs tweet on iPhone 4 recall". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
14. "Mail gets wrong number on iPhone 4 recall scoop". theweek.co.uk. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
15. "Daily Mail inquiry into 'Knox guilty' blunder". PressGazette. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
16. Joel Gunter (4 October 2011). "Daily Mail criticised over Amanda Knox guilty story". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
17. Stuart Kemp (3 October 2011). "Amanda Knox Verdict: Daily Mail's Website Posts Wrong Decision". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 5 January 2013. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
18. Greenslade, Roy (4 October 2011). "The Guardian on the false Mail Online Amanda Knox verdict". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
19. "Mail Online censured over 'Amanda Knox guilty' story". Press Gazette. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
20. Rachel McAthy (12 December 2011). "PCC censures Mail Online for Knox verdict report". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
21. Andrew Beaujon (10 May 2012). "Daily Mail spanked for fabricating Amanda Knox story". Poynter. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
22. Roy Greenslade (9 December 2011). "Daily Mail censured for fictional story about Amanda Knox verdict". Greensdale Blog. The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
23. ""Ad Age" Denies It Named Rihanna's Armani Ad "Sexiest of the Year"". Ad Age. 4 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
24. "Sexiest Ads Of 2011 List Includes Rihanna, Miranda Kerr, Models In Skivvies (PHOTOS)". The Huffington Post. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
25. "British news outlets 'fabricated' quotes to support anti-gaming story". BeefJack. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
26. Eric Tennant (8 May 2012). "Story of vengeful jilted dentist was too good to be true". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
27. Jonathan Lemire (28 April 2012). "Sweet revenge: Dentist pulls ALL of ex-boyfriend's teeth out after getting dumped". New York Daily News. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
28. "Vengeful Polish dentist story reported to be a hoax". Fox News. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
29. "Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey". The Christian Science Monitor. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
30. "Egypt may legalize dead-spouse sex, 14-year-old brides [CORRECTION]". msn.com. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
31. "Nicolas Cage settles lawsuit with U.K. journalists". msn.com. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
32. "Nicolas Cage receives damages and apology over online story". bbc.co.uk. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
33. "Editor of Daily Mail's website defends attribution practices in face of growing criticism". poynter.org. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Mail on Sunday

• Daily Mail
• Daily Mail and General Trust
• Entertainment websites
• Internet search engines
• News websites