LabourStart in Numbers: Numbers rising, but visits to site falling?
Here are the totals with the changes since the end of last month in brackets:
Mailing lists – subscribers: 72,403 [+1,620]
LabourStart’s English language mailing list: 60,240 [+1,322]
Unique visits to the site this month: 540,582 (-11,153)
Page views this month: 1,527,540 (-409,670)
Popular language home pages (last month in brackets):
* English 44,183 (41,748)
* French 5,084 (4,676)
* Norwegian 5,033 (6,768)
* Finnish 2,121 (2,069)
* Russian 1,851 (1,605)
* Polish 2,016 (1.833)
* Dutch 1,523 (1,280)
UnionBook 2.0 – members: 3,094 [+289]
Facebook – members of LabourStart group: 4,150 [+220]
Twitter – followers: 2,912 2,790 [+122]
Correspondents: 844 [+16]
Union group on Flickr: 595 [+2]
LinkedIn – members of LabourStart group: 276 [+39]
Some highlights from the mailing lists — the other large groups are:
Norwegian 2,743 [+19]
French 2,385 [+37]
Spanish 1,288 [+21]
German 846 [+6]
Italian 532 [+3]
Turkish 515 [+25]
Russian 495 [+9]
Polish 303 [+1]
Chinese 244 [+1]
Portuguese 242 [+4]
Dutch 236 [+3]
Swedish 225 [-2]
Danish 160 [+1]
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The trends make sense to me. Interested people are more wired-in via SM; they get LabourStart’s messages pushed out directly to their news feeds. As a result they don’t feel the need to go check the website 🙂