{"id":4227,"date":"2018-11-02T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:31:26","slug":"labourstart-in-numbers-august-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart in Numbers – August-October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some highlights:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

* There seems to be an increase in traffic to the site, with our internet host showing a rise to almost 400,000 visitors in this quarter — half of them coming from the USA and UK.<\/p>\n

* As before, our mailing lists are shrinking in size, largely due to the effect of GDPR \u2013 which prevents us from automatically signing up new supporters for our campaigns. All of our top 10 lists except for Turkish<\/em> have gotten smaller, and the only lists to grow were relatively small ones (Chinese, Esperanto and Hungarian).<\/p>\n

* There has been some growth on Facebook — we’ve picked up over 300 new followers for our main page, and about another 100 have joined our group there (which is no longer branded as LabourStart).<\/p>\n

* On Twitter we did much better, picking up 333 more followers for our main English global feed, 80 more for our Canadian English feed, and 187 more for our revived Australian feed.<\/p>\n

* Our group on LinkedIn continues to grow, picking up 60 more members in this period.<\/p>\n

* We are now back at 900 volunteer correspondents, as people continue to sign up to post news, but only a fraction of them remain active at any time.<\/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

The top 10:<\/p>\n

English: 80,850 – 81,559<\/span>
\nFrench: 8,610 – 8,658<\/span>
\nGerman: 6,103 – 6,131<\/span>
\nSpanish: 5,356 – 5,372<\/span>
\nTurkish: 4,260 – 4,189<\/strong><\/span>
\nKorean: 3,740 – 3,740
\nItalian: 3,719 – 3,733<\/span>
\nNorwegian: 2,603 – 2,644<\/span>
\nRussian: 2,450 – 2,484<\/span>
\nDutch: 1,669 – 1,669<\/p>\n

The others:<\/p>\n

Swedish: 1,179 – 1,180<\/span>
\nChinese: 1,043 – 1,040<\/strong><\/span>
\nArabic: 957 – 957
\nPortuguese: 859 – 861<\/span>
\nPolish: 798 – 798
\nFinnish: 562 – 595<\/span>
\nJapanese: 446 – 447<\/span>
\nIndonesian: 395 – 395
\nHebrew: 262 – 264<\/span>
\nUkrainian: 254 – 273<\/span>
\nFarsi: 232 – 232
\nGeorgian: 217 – 217
\nTagalog: 203 – 203
\nEsperanto: 177 – 174<\/strong><\/span>
\nHungarian: 159 – 156<\/strong><\/span>
\nDanish: 86 – 91<\/span>
\nCzech: 72 – 73<\/span>
\nThai: 64 – 64
\nGreek: 57 – 57
\nRomanian: 41 – 41
\nHindi: 37 – 37
\nVietnamese: 25 – 25
\nBulgarian: 18 – 18
\nSlovakian: 15 – 15
\nCreole: 12 – 12
\nSinhalese: 1 – 1<\/p>\n

Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like LabourStart.org page (English): 12,698 – 12,395<\/span><\/strong>
\nMembers of LabourStart group (Global Labour News and Information): 8,899 – 8,795<\/span><\/strong>
\nLike LabourStart page (Turkish): 2,365 – 2,368<\/span>
\nLike LabourStart UK page: 2,088 – 2,033<\/strong><\/span>
\nLike LabourStart page (French): 575 – 576<\/span>
\nLike LabourStart page (German): 493 – 493
\nFriends of LabourStart Brasil: 450 – 428<\/strong><\/span>
\nLabourStart TV: 405 – 403<\/strong><\/span>
\nLike LabourStart page (Hebrew): 157 – 159<\/span>
\nMembers of LabourStart Vostok (Russian): 126 – 126<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n

English: 20,878 – 20,545<\/strong><\/span>
\nCanada English: 9,549 – 9,469<\/strong><\/span>
\nUSA: 3,586 – 3,560<\/strong><\/span>
\nAustralia: 2,863 – 2,676<\/strong><\/span>
\nCanada French: 1,939 – 1,957<\/span>
\nItalian: 525 – 532<\/span>
\nSwedish: 366 – 366
\nIndonesia: 353 – 353
\nPortuguese: 307 – 291<\/strong><\/span>
\nFrench: 236 – 231<\/span><\/strong>
\nGerman: 94 – 95<\/span>
\nSpanish: 70 – 69<\/strong><\/span>
\nRussian: 31 – 28<\/strong><\/span>
\nJapanese: 19 – 19
\nNorwegian: 18 – 18
\nTurkish: 17 – 14<\/strong><\/span>
\nDutch: 12 – 12
\nArabic: 7 – 7<\/p>\n

Linked In<\/strong><\/p>\n

LabourStart group: 2,088 – 2,028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Flickr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Union group on Flickr: 831 – 831<\/p>\n

Website traffic to the main news website<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visitors 399,164 – 239,465<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Top countries (by sessions):<\/p>\n

USA 38% – 32%
\nUK 12% – 7%
\nIndia 6% – 6%
\nGermany 4% – 7%
\nCanada 4% – 7%<\/p>\n

Correspondents: 900 – 883<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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