Some highlights of this, our first quarterly report for 2015:<\/p>\n
For the first time in a while, we have some fairly accurate statistics from Google Analytics, which answers the question – how many people look at LabourStart?<\/em> The short answer seems to be — about 42,000<\/strong>. That’s the number of unique visitors to our campaigns in the first three months of the year. Of those, about 35,000 have also visited our main (news) website.<\/p>\n There are some significant differences in how LabourStart is used in different countries. \u00a0For example, while Australians are big consumers of our news, providing us with one in six viewers of our news, they only provide one in twenty supporters of our campaigns.<\/p>\n Our mailing lists total over 125,000<\/strong> — our top 11 lists, all of which have 1,000 subscribers or more — total 124,382. So the number of people who visit our campaigns are only about a third of the size of our mailing list.<\/p>\n Our presence on social media continues to grow, with our biggest growth being on Twitter. We’re also experiencing good growth on Facebook as well.<\/p>\n Mailing lists with 200 or more subscribers \u2013 the second number is from the previous quarter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Where the numbers are unchanged, it’s likely that we did no mailings to that list during this period – these are therefore the dormant lists. Of our largest lists, the dormant ones are therefore Korean, Chinese, Polish, Finish and Japanese. Were we to find volunteer translators to regularly mail to those lists, we’d instantly reach 6,109 people, which would generate 300 – 600 new supporters for every campaign.<\/p>\n English: 86,077 – 85,230 Chinese: 1,107 – 1,106 Other ways to count \u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Social networks<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Twitter followers<\/strong><\/p>\n Note the spectacular growth of the new Italian feed. Also very good growth for the main English and Canadian and US feeds, as well as our Indonesia feed.<\/p>\n English: 14,134 – 13,646 Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Group – where people can post their own material – continues to grow much faster than our page, picking up 80 new members this quarter, while the page only grew by half that amount. The fastest growing page of ours on Facebook is the Hebrew one, growing by 20% this quarter.<\/p>\n Like LabourStart.org page (English): 9,153 – 9,112 UnionBook<\/strong><\/p>\n Members: 5,862 – 5,846<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/strong><\/p>\n LabourStart group: 1,892 – 1,835<\/p>\n Flickr<\/strong><\/p>\n Union group on Flickr: 787 – 786<\/p>\n Website<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Correspondents: 773 – 762<\/p>\n LabourStart.org (news)<\/strong><\/p>\n Unique users \u2013 35,252 – 7,869<\/p>\n Top countries (by sessions):<\/p>\n USA 25% Most popular pages – page views:<\/p>\n Home page \u2013 English\u00a054,062 LabourStartCampaigns.net (campaigns)<\/strong><\/p>\n Unique users \u2013 41,682 – 10,810<\/p>\n Top countries (by sessions):<\/p>\n USA 17% Most popular pages – page views:<\/p>\n Don’t tarnish your love with Rio Tinto’s dirty diamonds and gold! – 11,390 Some highlights of this, our first quarterly report for 2015: For the first time in a while, we have some fairly accurate statistics from Google Analytics, which answers the question – how many people look at LabourStart? The short answer seems to be — about 42,000. That’s the number of unique visitors to our campaigns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,34,7,17,33,20,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699"}],"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=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrench: 8,238 – 8,202
\nGerman: 5,708 – 5,568
\nSpanish: 5,446 – 5,414
\nItalian: 4,059 – 4,088
\nTurkish: 3,684 – 3,668
\nKorean: 3,080 – 3,080
\nNorwegian: 2,803 – 2,801
\nRussian: 2,418 – 2,466
\nDutch: 1,762 – 1,695<\/p>\n
\nPolish: 752 – 752
\nFinnish: 687 – 687
\nJapanese: 483 – 483
\nArabic: 463 – 463
\nPortuguese: 353 – 353
\nIndonesian: 346 – 344
\nSwedish: 345 – 236
\nHebrew: 277 – 270
\nTagalog: 254 – 254
\nFarsi: 242 – 242<\/p>\n
\nCanada English: 4,073 – 3,800
\nCanada French: 666 – 624
\nUSA: 492 – 442
\nItalian: 255 – 14
\nIndonesia: 230 – 179
\nFrench: 221 – 218
\nSpanish: 75 – 73
\nGerman: 73 – 71
\nJapanese: 21 – 22
\nRussian: 19 – 18
\nPortuguese: 7 \u2013 7<\/p>\n
\nMembers of LabourStart group: 8,338 – 8,258
\nLike LabourStart page (French): 463 – 463
\nLike LabourStart page (German): 407 – 391
\nLike LabourStart page (Turkish): 149 – 144
\nLike LabourStart page (Hebrew): 135 – 112<\/p>\n
\nAustralia 16%
\nCanada 14%
\nUK 7%
\nIndia 5%<\/p>\n
\nUSA \u2013 English\u00a015,024
\nCanada \u2013 English\u00a08,049
\nHome page – Norwegian –\u00a03,515
\nIndia \u2013\u00a03,284<\/p>\n
\nUK 14%
\nCanada 12%
\nGermany 7%
\nAustralia 5%<\/p>\n
\nTurkey: 98 health care workers sacked for joining a union – 10,212
\nLafarge Holcim: No merger without workers’ rights! – 9,416
\nKenya: Truckers held at gunpoint for protesting over 24 hour shifts – 8,360
\nEcuador: Reinstate Jimena Lopez this International Women’s Day – 7,882<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"