My comments this time appear below, at appropriate points in the long lists of numbers.<\/p>\n
Mailing lists [with 200 or more subscribers]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The most spectacular gain this month has been to our German mailing list — which grew by 850 subscribers net. This is substantially greater than the total growth for all other lists combined<\/strong>. At this rate, German will become our third largest list sometime this month.\u00a0 A year ago, this list had just over 2,000 subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n English: 85,670 [85,432] +238 Social networks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Twitter followers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The big news here is the launch of our LabourStart Indonesia twitter feed — an initiative by our new correspondent, Pete Moss, who covers Indonesian news.\u00a0 And the main English Twitter feed continues to grow at a healthy pace, and is just under 12,000 followers.\u00a0 (The ITUC has 5,407 followers; the ILO has 29,885 — we’re in the middle.)<\/em><\/p>\n English: 11,995 [11,816]<\/strong> Facebook<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n What’s interesting here is that 3 times as many people joined our Group than liked our Page in English this month. There’s obviously a dynamic to Group growth that our page on Facebook is missing. It’s very important therefore to always post new campaigns, etc to both the Page and the Group.<\/em><\/p>\n Like LabourStart.org page (English): 8,633 [8,546] UnionBook<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Now really stagnant, the question is — do we spin this off somehow? Maybe someone could be persuaded to buy it from us?<\/em><\/p>\n Members: 5,760 [5,750]<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n LabourStart group: 1,625 [1,605]<\/p>\n Flickr<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A small gain this month as we asked our worker-photographers to submit May Day photos and join the group. Still, when you email 90,000+ people and that leads to a gain of just 26, it’s not that impressive.\u00a0 (Our LinkedIn group, which we do absolutely nothing to promote, grew by\u00a0 nearly as much.)<\/em><\/p>\n Union group on Flickr: 774 [748]<\/p>\n Website<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Correspondents: 703 [699]<\/p>\n Website traffic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n LabourStart.org (1&1 statistics)<\/em><\/p>\n Total visits: 638,835 [635,661]<\/p>\n LabourStart.org (Clicky)<\/p>\n Total visitors: 40,845 [40,645]<\/p>\n Where they come from:<\/p>\n Sweden continues to bring us hundreds of visitors every month — even though we still don’t have a proper news page or active correspondents in that language. Something to work on.\u00a0 The other popular news pages here (English, German, Norwegian, French and Indonesian) are all updated regularly.<\/em><\/p>\n USA \u2013 9,419 [8,525] Their operating systems:<\/p>\n Windows \u2013 68.9% [68.2%] LabourStartCampaigns.net (Clicky)<\/p>\n Total visitors: 33,523 [29,094]<\/p>\n Where they come from:<\/p>\n Good to see Turkey back in the top 5, no doubt due to our having just launched two campaigns relating to Turkey. Note also huge gains in German traffic to our campaigns, up six-fold in two months.\u00a0 Also note increased traffic for every single one<\/strong> of our top ten languages.<\/em><\/p>\n Canada \u2013 4,980 [6,464] Their operating systems:<\/p>\n Nearly one in five people who support our online campaigns now do so using a smartphone or tablet — watch this number grow month on month.<\/em><\/p>\n Windows \u2013 68.5% [68.4%] My comments this time appear below, at appropriate points in the long lists of numbers. Mailing lists [with 200 or more subscribers] The most spectacular gain this month has been to our German mailing list — which grew by 850 subscribers net. This is substantially greater than the total growth for all other lists combined. 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\nFrench: 7,801 [7,707] +94
\nSpanish: 5,131 [5,106] +25
\nG<\/strong>erman: 5,069 [4,219] +850<\/strong>
\nItalian: 4,115 [4,110] +5
\nTurkish: 3,440 [3,253] +187
\nNorwegian: 2,878 [2,907]
\nRussian: 2,524 [2,525]
\nKorean: 2,122 [2,122]
\nDutch: 1,349 [1,391]
\nChinese: 1,073 [1,073]
\nFinnish: 609 [624]
\nJapanese: 494 [494]
\nArabic: 390 [381] +9
\nPortuguese: 351 [338] +13
\nPolish: 269 [269]
\nIndonesian: 265 [262] +3
\nTagalog: 254 [254]
\nHebrew: 243 [250]
\nFarsi: 242 [242]<\/p>\n
\nCanada English: 3,067 [2,957]
\nCanada French: 432 [416]
\nFrench: 209 [205]
\nUSA: 252 [209]
\nSpanish: 66 [67]
\nGerman: 48 [45]
\nIndonesia: 26 [new]<\/strong>
\nJapanese: 23 [23]
\nRussian: 17 [16]
\nPortuguese: 7 [7]<\/p>\n
\nMembers of LabourStart group: 7,511 [7,268]<\/strong>
\nLike LabourStart page (French): 418 [409]
\nLike LabourStart page (German): 315 [301]
\nLike LabourStart page (Turkish): 134 [131]
\nLike LabourStart page (Hebrew): 105 [105]<\/p>\n
\nCanada \u2013 7,245 [8,140]
\nUK \u2013 5,478 [4,809]
\nAustralia \u2013 2,670 [2,618]
\nGermany \u2013 1,671 [1,526]
\nNorway \u2013 1,562 [2,132]
\nFrance \u2013 871 [820]
\nSweden \u2013 784 [888]<\/strong>
\nIndonesia \u2013 760 [1,252]
\nBelgium — 718 [–]<\/p>\n
\nMobile \u2013 13.8% [15.6%] (iOS \u2013 7.2% [7.3%]; Android \u2013 4.7% [5.6%])
\nMac \u2013 15.4% [14.8%]
\nLinux \u2013 1.9% [1.4%]<\/p>\n
\nUK \u2013 4,679 [3,965]
\nUSA \u2013 4,343 [4,087]
\nGermany \u2013 3,292 [1,236]<\/strong>
\nTurkey — 1,805 [–]<\/strong>
\nAustralia \u2013 1,450 [1,349]
\nFrance \u2013 1,224 [1,152]
\nBelgium \u2013 1,186 [1,030]
\nSpain \u2013 1,153 [1,038]
\nItaly \u2013 884 [750]<\/p>\n
\nMobile \u2013 18.8% [18.6%] (iOS \u2013 9.8% [10.1%]; Android \u2013 7.7% [6.9%])
\nMac \u2013 10.6% [11.1%]
\nLinux \u2013 2.1% [1.8%]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"