Allied Newspapers Limited was officially set up in 1939 by the Strickland family following the birth of its masthead the Times of Malta in 1935. Originally home to Malta's leading English language newspapers the Times of Malta and the Sunday Times of Malta, both of which are still going strong, the company has since then diversified into a wider media remit. Times of Malta is the leading national news organisation. Its website is by far, the highest-ranked local website, measured by every analytic tool. timesofmalta.com is ranked among the top 3,000 websites in the world, measured by Alexa. The website serves on average, 20 million requests a month and has over half a million unique users daily. It runs on fully scripted and highly scalable cloud infrastructure. Due to the nature of news cycles, in random and high peaks the number of active visitors could grow exponentially in just a matter of a few minutes.