{"id":2598,"date":"2012-09-03T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:16:47","slug":"labourstart-in-numbers-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart in Numbers: August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Highlights this month &#8211;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though August is traditionally a quiet month, and this is reflected in the lack of growth for the top <strong>mailing lists<\/strong>, we had a huge growth in our Turkish list (up by more than 50%, a gain of over 1,000 subscribers) and the German list grew by 202 subscribers, a gain of nearly 10%.  In <strong>social networks<\/strong>, we&#8217;re rapidly approaching 5,000 &#8216;likes&#8217; for our Facebook page in English, with another nearly 300 in French and Turkish.  We&#8217;re just under 1,000 members of our LinkedIn group &#8211; which we&#8217;ve done absolutely nothing to publicize.  We&#8217;re finally over 1,000 correspondents (and will need to soon starting weeding out the inactive ones).  Finally, visits to <strong>the website<\/strong> soared for some reason in August, with a gain of almost 20% in unique visits and an additional 150,000 page views compared to July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Total for all lists: 101,775 [100,331]<\/p>\n<p>English: 73,544 [73,474]<br \/>\nFrench: 5,777 [5,777]<br \/>\nSpanish: 4,177 [4,163]<br \/>\nItalian: 3,868 [3,873]<br \/>\nTurkish: 2,989 [1,897]<br \/>\nGerman: 2,497 [2,292]<br \/>\nNorwegian: 2,301 [2,281]<br \/>\nRussian: 1,945 [1,947]<br \/>\nDutch: 738 [736]<br \/>\nChinese: 500 [496]<br \/>\nPolish: 306 [306]<br \/>\nPortuguese: 243 [247]<br \/>\nJapanese: 209 [ 209]<br \/>\nFarsi: 201 [186]<br \/>\nSwedish: 189 [194]<br \/>\nFinnish: 184 [184]<br \/>\nHebrew: 177 [157]<br \/>\nDanish: 153 [156]<br \/>\nArabic: 160 [156]<\/p>\n<p>And just below the radar:<\/p>\n<p>Korean 93 [93]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social networks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UnionBook \u2013<br \/>\nMembers: 5,275 [5,227]<\/p>\n<p>Facebook \u2013<br \/>\nLike LabourStart.org page (English): 4,956 [4,787]<br \/>\nMembers of LabourStart group: 4,772 [4,762]<br \/>\nLike LabourStart page (French): 222 [213]<br \/>\nLike LabourStart page (Turkish): 60<\/p>\n<p>Twitter followers &#8211;<br \/>\nEnglish: 7,167 [6,920]<\/p>\n<p>Union group on Flickr: 698 [694]<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn \u2013 LabourStart group: 991 [951]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Correspondents: 1,013 [994]<\/p>\n<p>Unique visits to the site this month : 599,990 [509,378]<br \/>\nPeak day: 23,064 [23.8.12]<br \/>\nPage views this month: 1,312,682 [1,164,243]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights this month &#8211; Though August is traditionally a quiet month, and this is reflected in the lack of growth for the top mailing lists, we had a huge growth in our Turkish list (up by more than 50%, a gain of over 1,000 subscribers) and the German list grew by 202 subscribers, a gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,7,17,33,20,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}