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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
Counter-Currents continues to grow. October was our best month ever.
1. Our Fundraiser
The big news is the successful conclusion of our first fundraising campaign. Thanks to a generous matching grant offer, we reached and exceeded our goal of $25,000, with a total $25,625. We want to thank all those who contributed for your generosity and faith in our work.
We have learned a lot about how do to fundraising. Next year, we plan to do two campaigns, one in the Spring, one in the Autumn, and we will keep them both short (10 days each).
2. Our Blog
In October, we added 100 posts to the website–our best month ever (up from 62 in September). As of the end of October, we had a total of 1,248 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 300 new comments.
3. Our Readership and Web Traffic
In October, we had 90,444 visits (up from 88,782 visits in September). We had 45,590 unique visitors in October (up from 45,427 in September). These visitors looked at 337,137 pages (down from 422,902 in September due largely to better filtering out of bot traffic).
| Month | Unique Visitors | Number of Visits | Pages Viewed | “Hits” | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | 6,145 | 10,328 | 70,732 | 200,824 | 6.08 GB |
| July 2010 | 9,387 | 17,329 | 119,254 | 348,172 | 10.01 GB |
| August | 12,174 | 22,348 | 93,379 | 333,614 | 10.17 GB |
| September | 17,063 | 34,510 | 147,051 | 580,550 | 16.39 GB |
| October | 17,848 | 35,921 | 140,365 | 611,367 | 17.93 GB |
| November | 26,054 | 48,336 | 171,833 | 915,553 | 26.39 GB |
| December | 26,161 | 50,975 | 192,905 | 1,101,829 | 27.79 GB |
| January | 28,583 | 60,005 | 198,249 | 1,736,067 | 34.06 GB |
| February | 29,737 | 61,519 | 213,121 | 2,081,558 | 40.13 GB |
| March | 29,768 | 62,077 | 220,053 | 2,485,001 | 52.21 GB |
| April | 20,091 | 58,037 | 223,291 | 2,729,449 | 54.65 GB |
| May | 36,596 | 78,103 | 274,841 | 1,334,472 | 47.59 GB |
| June 2011 | 28,629 | 57,920 | 264,928 | 1,004,128 | 22.78 GB |
| July 2011 | 30,186 | 66,093 | 416,309 | 1,952,047 | 71.23 GB |
| August 2011 | 40,002 | 81,012 | 502,282 | 2,083,593 | 53.18 GB |
| September 2011 | 45,427 | 88,782 | 422,902 | 481,909 | 11.67 GB |
| October 2011 | 45,590 | 90,444 | 337,137 | 468,197 | 17.78 GB |
4. October’s Top Twenty Articles (with date of publication and number of readers)
- Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 9,370
- Trevor Lynch, Review of Pulp Fiction, June 29 & July 6, 2011, 3,775
- Gregory Hood, review of Scarface, February 27, 2011: 3,297
- Michael O’Meara, “White Nationalism is not Anti-Semitism,” October 5, 2011, 2,787
- Vic Olvir, “Sylvia Plath: Stasis in Darkness,” November 9, 2010: 2,442
- Daniel W. Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe,” April 21, 2011, 2,407
- Irmin Vinson, “Quelques réflexions sur Hitler,” May 31, 2011: 1,603
- Greg Johnson, “The Self-Exterminating Jew: Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who?,” October 7, 2011, 1,597
- Andrew Hamilton, “What is the Best Hitler Biography?,” October 14, 2011, 1,370
- Kevin Deanna, “Radicals for the System,” October 10, 2011, 1,248
- Greg Johnson, “The Burden of Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 1,143
- Greg Johnson, “Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche,” October 15, 2011, 1,120
- Gregory Hood, Review of Big Fan, October 17, 2011, 1,105
- Greg Johnson, “The Decline and Fall of Muammar el-Qaddafi,” October 21, 2011, 1,101
- Greg Johnson, “5 to 9 Conservatism,” October 19, 2011, 1,080
- Robert Locke, “Japan, Refutation of Neo-Liberalism,” October 26, 2011, 1,063
- Jonathan Bowden, “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker,” November 19, 2010, 1,044
- Matt Parrott, “Pick Your Poison,” October 5, 2011, 1,041
- Greg Johnson, Yoav Shamir’s Defamation, October 13, 2011, 1,001
- Greg Johnson, “What About Fascist Medicine?,” October 24, 2011, 1,000
Irmin Vinson on Hitler, Gregory Hood on Scarface, and Vic Olvir on Sylvia Plath remain some of our most popular essays. In addition, the French translation of the Vinson article remained in our top ten for the third consecutive month.
5. Where Our Readers Are: The top 20 Countries
Our web statistics program gives us a country-by-country breakdown of our readership. Here are the top 20 countries:
1. United States
2. Great Britain
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. Australia
6. Finland
7. China
8. Sweden
9. France
10. Japan
11. Netherlands
12. Brazil
13. Czech Republic
14. Russian Federation
15. Mexico
16. India
17. Ukraine
18. Poland
19. Norway
20. Switzerland
6. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities
1. New York City
2. San Francisco
3. London
4. Melbourne
5. Sydney
6. Chicago
7. Stockholm
8. Mexico City
9. Los Angeles
10. Atlanta
11. Vancouver, B.C.
12. Seattle
13. Toronto
14. Berlin
15. Washington, D.C.
16. Long Beach, Cal.
17. Edinburgh
18. Winnipeg
19. Montreal
20. Dallas
7. Plans for November & December
In November and December, my focus as editor will be on getting several books to press before the end of the year: North American New Right, vol. 1, Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right, Andy Nowicki’s new novella Under The Nihil, Savitri Devi’s Forever and Ever (co-published with the Savitri Devi Archive), and Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies.
We also plan, somehow, to produce out first Counter-Currents hour-long podcast show. At first, we will do it monthly, but when we get the hang of it, we will do it weekly.
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I want to thank our writers, donors, and proofreaders; our webmaster/Managing Editor; and above all, you, our readers for being part of a growing intellectual and spiritual community.
Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right
One Comment
Great to see that the readership is growing, nice work! I find the statistics a bit strange tough. For example how can Finland be no 6 and China be no 7 in the top 20 Countries statistics? Finland is probably the most ethnically aware country in Europe but the English language skills are notoriously sub par for the country as a whole compared to the rest of the Nordic countries (no offense suomi pojka 🙂 I also find it very strange that there are so many visitors from china, topicly It might be understandable why Japan are in the top 20 but before Russia and Norway among others seem… well weird. Japanese are also known for their poor English skills but at least they try hard…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDcfOkOeTw
Maybe you could advertise counter-currents on appropriate sites in countries with large interest potential and generally good language skills for the country as a whole. Denmark and Belgium comes to mind.