LabourStart in Numbers – July 2010
The move over to a new server for our mailing lists, and the introduction of automated bounce processing, means a temporary dip in the number of subscribers. As a result, we’re down from 70,464 to 67,834. The list that grew the fastest was the Turkish one, which is now our 8th largest list. July also saw a dramatic fall in the number of unique visitors to the site, probably due to summer holidays (in the northern hemisphere).
Here are the totals with the changes since the end of June in brackets:
- Mailing lists – subscribers: 67,834 [-2,630]
- LabourStart’s English language mailing list: 57,783 [+630]
- Absolute unique visitors according to Google: 28,098 [-11,412]
- UnionBook – members: 4,779 [+129]
- Facebook – members of LabourStart group: 3,512 [+74]
- Twitter – followers: 2,289 [+61]
- Correspondents: 797 [+12]
- Union group on Flickr: 562 [+6]
- LinkedIn – members of LabourStart group: 190 [+10]
Some highlights from the mailing lists — the other large groups are:
- Norwegian 2,699 [no change]
- French 2,108 [+44]
- Spanish 1,188 [+14]
- German 795 [+3]
- Italian 515 [+10]
- Russian 429 [+14]
- Turkish 375 [+59]
- Polish 303 [+1]
- Portuguese 237 [+2]
- Swedish 228 [no change]
- Dutch 225 [+1]
- Chinese 169 [+3]
- Danish 162 [no change]
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Would a mailings to each of the non-English lists to the effect that we’re trying to build those lists and specifically asking recipients to pass it along and encourage their contacts to join a campaign or two and the list as a result be a useful exercise?