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THE Daily Record and Sunday Mail website has just had its best month ever – and it's all thanks to you, our readers.



During December, an amazing 2,123,001 unique visitors came to our site, making it the highest monthly readership total and a 50 per cent increase on the same month in 2010.



Our website was read by more than 18.5million unique visitors in total last year – a 32 per cent rise on the 2010 figure.



Here's a rundown of what our readers found most interesting during 2011, purely in terms of how many people read each story, watched each video or listened to each podcast.



BEST READ NEWS STORIES



1. Teenager dies after dyeing her hair

2. Kate Middleton's fitness regime revealed

3. Trump fences off Aberdeenshire man's home

4. Brushing hair could be fatal for young girl

5. Twitter move backfires for Imogen Thomas's football lover

6. Imogen Thomas's footballer lover named

7. Magician stalls thieves with tricks until cops turn up

8. Scots tycoon and wife arrested in US nightclub

9. Yobs given free lollipops to behave

10. Mounted police charge Kelvingrove Park rioters



BEST READ SPORTS STORIES



1. Rangers could face 25-point deduction

2. Rangers director horrified by court order

3. Celtic coach Alan Thompson on El-Hadji Diouf

4. Old Firm cup clash ends in mayhem

5. Diouf on losing most hated player tag

6. Rangers face Euro ban over sectarian chants

7. Celtic star Anthony Stoke's secret mum revealed

8. Ex-ref revealed as cop who sparked Celtic UEFA probe

9. Diouf: Neil Lennon is no racist

10. Kyle Lafferty gets ear-bashing from Neil Lennon



BEST READ SHOWBIZ STORIES



1. The Krankies reveal wild nights and swinging

2. Gnarls Barkley go out on top

3. Amy Winehouse dies at age she predicted

4. Simon Cowell plans clearout as X Factor viewers turn off

5. Gail Porter home after mental health problems

6. Frankie Cocozza blew TV money on cocaine

7. TV's Jasmine Harmen on posing nude for calendar

8. Tulisa says N-Dubz will split

9. Ricky Gervais jokes split Hollywood

10. Little Mix favourites to win X Factor



MOST POPULAR VIDEOS



1. Villas-Boas unveiled as Chelsea manager

2. Sepp Blatter denies FIFA are in crisis

3. Scotland unveil new performance director

4. Rangers need more players to win four in a row

5. Hampden museum celebrates birthday

6. Rio Ferdinand slams Blatter comments

7. Celtic donate cash to Africa charity

8. Ipswich miss out on cup final

9. Aguero saves Manchester City

10. Paul Lambert tires of penalties



MOST POPULAR PODCASTS



1. Craig Levein's Scotland making progress

2. Scotland v Brazil post-mortem

3. Europa League previews

4. SPL weekly roundup

5. Celtic denied plus SPL previews

6. Rangers stumble against Maritimo

7. Rangers fans face European ban

8. Do Scotland have a bright future?

9. CIS Cup semi-finals preview

10. SPL latest and Scotland fixtures



MOST POPULAR PICTURE GALLERIES



1. Chaos at Old Firm derby

2. Celtic v. Manchester United Legends

3. 12 key moments in Rangers' title triumph

4. SPL's most expensive duds

5. Kelvingrove party descends into riot

6. Tartan Army move into Alicante

7. Rangers v. Celtic action

8. Wedding iconic images

9. Celtic training in Australia

10. Glasgow life in the 1970s



MOST POPULAR BLOGS AND COLUMNS



Tam Cowan

George Galloway

Joan McFadden

Computer games

Jim Traynor

Coleen Nolan

Hugh Keevins

Gordon Waddell

Murdo MacLeod

Mark Hateley