This is the first report in five months \u2013 sorry for the delay. The next report will come out in three months — in early August.<\/p>\n
Some highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n * As I reported last time, our mailing are generally growing smaller; this happens when we use them a lot, and MailChimp deletes subscribers whose email addresses are no longer valid. The only way to get around this is to recruit new people to our lists, which we are doing, but not fast enough. The good news is the our Arabic list nearly doubled in size, and we have a new list in Georgia with about 200 people.<\/p>\n * On Facebook, we’ve seen no growth at all in recent months.<\/p>\n * On Twitter, there’s been excellent growth of the global English feed, as well as our Canadian and US feeds, but nowhere else.<\/p>\n * A survey of traffic to our news and campaigns websites shows a decrease in the number of visitors overall, but a massive surge of visitors from China. However, one needs to show caution. Those thousands of Chinese visitors did not sign up to our campaigns in the Chinese language and did not land on our Chinese language news pages. Our assumption has to, therefore, that these were bots, not people.<\/p>\n In the list below, the first number is the current total, the second one is our previous total.<\/p>\n Mailing lists<\/strong><\/p>\n English: 82,997 – 84,753 Facebook:<\/strong><\/p>\n Like LabourStart.org page (English): 12,377 – 12,379 Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n English: 20,305 – 18,488 Linked In<\/strong><\/p>\n LabourStart group: 2,038 – 2,042<\/p>\n Flickr<\/strong><\/p>\n Union group on Flickr: 832 – 829<\/p>\n Website traffic (1.1.18 – 1.5.18)<\/strong><\/p>\n LabourStart.org (news) –<\/em><\/p>\n Unique users 38,143 – 55,884<\/p>\n Top countries (by sessions):<\/p>\n USA 20% – 21% Most popular pages \u2013 page views:<\/p>\n Home page \u2013 English 32,104 – 48,545 LabourStartCampaigns.net (campaigns)<\/em><\/p>\n Unique users 43,447 – 56,231<\/p>\n Top countries (by sessions):<\/p>\n China 39% Most popular pages \u2013 page views:<\/p>\n The number in brackets is the total number of those who have signed up to support the campaign.<\/p>\n Fiji: End the lockout at Nadi Airport – 12,075 [7,969] <\/p>\n Website<\/strong><\/p>\n Correspondents: 877 – 873<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the first report in five months \u2013 sorry for the delay. The next report will come out in three months — in early August. Some highlights: * As I reported last time, our mailing are generally growing smaller; this happens when we use them a lot, and MailChimp deletes subscribers whose email addresses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,34,7,17,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177"}],"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=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrench: 8,907 – 8,993
\nGerman: 6,225 – 6,279
\nSpanish: 5,432 – 5,509
\nTurkish: 4,205 – 4,217
\nItalian: 3,821 – 3,871
\nKorean: 3,773 – 3,773
\nNorwegian: 2,647 – 2,709
\nRussian: 2,501 – 2,580
\nDutch: 1,679 – 1,667
\nSwedish: 1,180 – 1,243
\nChinese: 1,055 – 1,074
\nArabic: 957 – 495
\nPortuguese: 865 – 877
\nPolish: 798 – 798
\nFinnish: 595 – 643
\nJapanese: 454 – 494
\nIndonesian: 394 – 392
\nHebrew: 266 – 276
\nUkrainian: 272 – 268
\nFarsi: 232 – 232
\nGeorgian: 217
\nTagalog: 205 – 225
\nEsperanto: 171 – 169
\nHungarian: 158 – 158
\nDanish: 91 – 97
\nCzech: 76 – 79
\nThai: 64 – 67
\nGreek: 58 – 58
\nRomanian: 41 – 41
\nHindi: 37 – 37
\nVietnamese: 25 – 25
\nSlovakian: 20 – 20
\nBulgarian: 18 \u2013 18
\nCreole: 12 – 12
\nSinhalese: 1 – 1<\/p>\n
\nMembers of LabourStart group (Global Labour News and Information): 8,830 – 8,874
\nLike LabourStart page (Turkish): 2,406 – 2,506
\nLike LabourStart UK page: 2,020 – 2,037
\nLike LabourStart page (French): 574 – 578
\nLike LabourStart page (German): 493 – 496
\nFriends of LabourStart Brasil: 415
\nLabourStart TV \u2013 401 – 401
\nLike LabourStart page (Hebrew): 159 – 163
\nMembers of LabourStart Vostok (Russian): 124 – 117<\/p>\n
\nCanada English: 8,910 – 7,745
\nUSA: 3,302 – 1,898
\nAustralia: 2,688 – 2,653
\nCanada French: 1,948 – 1,872
\nItalian: 527 – 538
\nSwedish: 369 – 370
\nIndonesia: 355 – 360
\nPortuguese: 277 – 278
\nFrench: 231 – 230
\nGerman: 92 – 92
\nSpanish: 68 – 70
\nJapanese: 19 – 21
\nRussian: 24 – 19
\nNorwegian: 18 – 19
\nTurkish: 14 – 16
\nDutch: 12 – 12
\nArabic: 8 – 8<\/p>\n
\nCanada 13% – 16%
\nUK 10% – 12%
\nChina 9%
\nIndia 6% – 5%<\/p>\n
\nUSA \u2013 English 16,018 – 20,156
\nCanada \u2013 English 6,679 – 8,527
\nIndia 3,509 – 5,175
\nUK \u2013 3,465<\/p>\n
\nUSA 9% – 12%
\nUK 8% – 14%
\nCanada 5% – 12%
\nGermany 5%<\/p>\n
\nIran: Esmail Abdi back in prison – free him now – 9,700 [8,372]
\nAlgeria: New government attack on independent energy union – 9,219 [10,005]
\nTurkey: Smart suits, shabby treatment: Sponsor of Bundesliga teams fires union members – 6,904 [7,901]
\nGeorgia: Time for a new labour law – 5,531 [6,070]<\/p>\n