Below we publish Google Analytics for Croakey.org and also analytics for our readership via Apple News (updated every three months). These are reported separately. We do not currently report on our Facebook page readership.
- For the first 9 months of 2021, we had 285,272 visitors to our website and our Apple News channel combined.
- For the first 9 months of 2021, there were 471,191 page views of our website and our Apple News channel combined.
Detailed analytics can be viewed below.
2021 Readership (9 months to 30 September)
Website visitors
205,401
| userType | users |
|---|---|
| New Visitor | 203,860 |
| Returning Visitor | 25,284 |
Page views
400,165
Top website stories for first 9 months of 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 19,491 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 15,011 |
| (not set) | 6,482 |
| An open letter in response to the lack of public concern or response to the killings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women | Croakey | 5,241 |
| Flashback: COVID-19 and the Death of the Hippie in the Northern Rivers region – Croakey Health Media | 5,072 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 4,730 |
| Under pressure: health leaders express deep concerns as Australia marks bleak COVID milestone – Croakey Health Media | 3,706 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 3,507 |
| Ten streams of evidence on airborne COVID-19 transmission, and responses to a backlash | Croakey | 3,466 |
| Sydney’s first drive-through vaccination clinic is a hit – listen to interview with Dr Jamal Rifi – Croakey Health Media | 2,982 |
Website traffic sources
| source | sessions |
|---|---|
| 107,632 | |
| (direct) | 73,830 |
| t.co | 22,389 |
| m.facebook.com | 15,918 |
| flipboard.com | 6,043 |
| hs_email | 5,827 |
| content.isentia.io | 3,755 |
| linkedin.com | 3,258 |
| bot-traffic.xyz | 3,033 |
| bing | 2,578 |
Croakey has posted articles to the Apple News platform since 2015.
Unique Viewers
12,732
Total views
21,008
Reach
197,255
Top website stories for September 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 6,817 |
| Flashback: COVID-19 and the Death of the Hippie in the Northern Rivers region – Croakey Health Media | 5,072 |
| Sydney’s first drive-through vaccination clinic is a hit – listen to interview with Dr Jamal Rifi – Croakey Health Media | 2,982 |
| Life beyond lockdown: OzSAGE strategies to ease Australian COVID surge – Croakey Health Media | 2,173 |
| COVID SNAPS: be careful what you wish for – Croakey Health Media | 1,465 |
| Families share their fears and concerns as COVID spreads in prisons – Croakey Health Media | 1,283 |
| A call on practitioners to play a stronger role on intergenerational trauma – Croakey Health Media | 1,280 |
| Making magic moments last forever in a ‘fast story of slow loss’ – Croakey Health Media | 1,139 |
| Joining the dots: how wide-ranging forces are undermining public health responses to the pandemic – Croakey Health Media | 1,081 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 960 |
Top Apple News stories for September 2021
Note: Due to technical difficulties, Croakey Health Media’s publishing to Apple News was limited in September 2021.
Top website stories for August 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 6,792 |
| Under pressure: health leaders express deep concerns as Australia marks bleak COVID milestone – Croakey Health Media | 2,948 |
| Push for babies to go ‘the whole nine months’ to reduce learning and developmental risks – Croakey Health Media | 2,806 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 1,721 |
| An investigation of the Medical Research Future Fund produces 24 pressing questions – Croakey Health Media | 1,520 |
| Miyo-pimatisiwin – Living a Good Life – Croakey Health Media | 1,290 |
| Urgent calls for New South Wales Government to address COVID risk in prisons – Croakey Health Media | 1,124 |
| What does the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan mean for the health of women and girls? – Croakey Health Media | 931 |
| Shocking stories from the frontlines drive calls for innovative mental health solutions – Croakey Health Media | 916 |
| COVID responses must be culturally safe to be effective say health leaders – Croakey Health Media | 765 |
Top Apple News stories for August 2021
Note: Due to technical difficulties, Croakey Health Media were unable to publish to Apple News for August 2021.
Top website stories for July 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 4,281 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 2,045 |
| If this is for public health, why does it feel like profiling? – Croakey Health Media | 1,038 |
| Stop the snark and politicking. And get on with delivering an effective public health response – Croakey Health Media | 754 |
| Caroline de Costa: Why I am returning my Order of Australia award – Croakey Health Media | 704 |
| The NDIS is fighting a trust deficit. Its future depends on putting this right – Croakey Health Media | 693 |
| Primary health reform: some real-world views – Croakey Health Media | 633 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the experts in knowledge translation – Croakey Health Media | 605 |
| Transparency fail adds to vaccination rollout woes – Croakey Health Media | 586 |
| Discussion paper on the future of primary care leaves much to be discussed – Croakey Health Media | 504 |
Top Apple News stories for July 2021
Top website stories for June 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 486 |
| Scott-free no more? Why the Prime Minister’s smooth media run may be coming to an end – Croakey Health Media | 262 |
| Calls for stronger action on tobacco control in Australia to counter industry lobbying – Croakey Health Media | 203 |
| The Health Wrap: on grief, sleep, mental health and much more – Croakey Health Media | 147 |
| Summit puts the spotlight on value-based care – Croakey Health Media | 137 |
| Tackling workforce distribution and diversity to deliver on mental health reform – Croakey Health Media | 125 |
| Back to the Fire – with truth-telling, culture and connections – Croakey Health Media | 120 |
| Page not found – Croakey Health Media | 93 |
| Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally – or accomplice? – Croakey Health Media | 84 |
| Rich nations like Australia urged to address the globe’s “dangerous gap” in vaccine equity – Croakey Health Media | 74 |
Top Apple News stories for June 2021
Top website stories for May 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,402 |
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 1,115 |
| What’s to be done about Van Morrison and Eric Clapton’s anti-lockdown antics? | Croakey | 881 |
| Jai Ho: May victory prevail on COVID-19 for India, with love and compassion | Croakey | 700 |
| Has the Budget delivered on aged care? Mixed verdicts on a five pillar package | Croakey | 533 |
| Does the aged care package deliver on Royal Commission recommendations? | Croakey | 509 |
| Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally – or accomplice? | Croakey | 437 |
| Wrapping health and healthcare reaction to a “three star” budget | Croakey | 435 |
| Reaction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice, health, disability funding | Croakey | 403 |
| Mental health funding boost: just nickels and dimes in the old shell game? | Croakey | 355 |
Top Apple News stories for May 2021
Top website stories for April 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,627 |
| Ten streams of evidence on airborne COVID-19 transmission, and responses to a backlash | Croakey | 3,177 |
| Jai Ho: May victory prevail on COVID-19 for India, with love and compassion | Croakey | 1,829 |
| Australia’s mega prison raises fears for prisoner and rural health | Croakey | 926 |
| (not set) | 720 |
| If you think COVID has been rough, even rockier times may lie ahead | Croakey | 591 |
| Airborne transmission of COVID-19 and hotel quarantine – let’s stop going round in circles | Croakey | 590 |
| Health leaders raise concerns over Minister Hunt’s politicisation of COVID vaccine program | Croakey | 587 |
| How the tobacco industry seized on the pandemic as an opportunity | Croakey | 515 |
| Ending the “silent suffering” of women with third and fourth degree perineal tears after childbirth | Croakey | 427 |
Top Apple News stories for April 2021
Top website stories for March 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| An open letter in response to the lack of public concern or response to the killings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women | Croakey | 4,829 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,439 |
| (not set) | 720 |
| A call to acknowledge the harmful history of nursing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | Croakey | 715 |
| Billionaire’s vaccine misinformation campaign a threat to public health | Croakey | 642 |
| A Tasmanian devil of a problem: sounding a health alarm for rural and remote communities | Croakey | 433 |
| Shifting Gears: success stories and way-points on the road to consumer-centred health care | Croakey | 433 |
| After the Royal Commission, aged care reform faces a long road | Croakey | 415 |
| It’s time for a parachute analogy, as well as pandemic communications that are respectful | Croakey | 409 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 398 |
Top Apple News stories for March 2021
Top website stories for February 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,548 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 880 |
| What’s to be done about Van Morrison and Eric Clapton’s anti-lockdown antics? | Croakey | 717 |
| Health leaders raise concerns over Minister Hunt’s politicisation of COVID vaccine program | Croakey | 640 |
| It’s time for a parachute analogy, as well as pandemic communications that are respectful | Croakey | 633 |
| Federal Budget 21-22: a full briefing for the Treasurer and Health Minister | Croakey | 497 |
| I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus | Croakey | 486 |
| Time to check into new hotel quarantine arrangements in Australia | Croakey | 455 |
| Fatal wound for Medicare? New fees for dressings “herald the end of bulk-billing” | Croakey | 442 |
| Facebook action creates public health emergency in Australia | Croakey | 441 |
Top Apple News stories for February 2021
Top website stories for January 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| (not set) | 5,040 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 1,995 |
| Fatal wound for Medicare? New fees for dressings “herald the end of bulk-billing” | Croakey | 1,859 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 1,823 |
| The hijacking of public health and the price paid during the COVID-19 pandemic | Croakey | 1,511 |
| Time to check into new hotel quarantine arrangements in Australia | Croakey | 1,011 |
| What’s to be done about Van Morrison and Eric Clapton’s anti-lockdown antics? | Croakey | 792 |
| Caroline de Costa: Why I am returning my Order of Australia award | Croakey | 639 |
| Time to tackle obesity, another threat to global health and wellbeing | Croakey | 480 |
| Public or private hospital? Changes in attitudes and use | Croakey | 431 |
Top Apple News stories for January 2021
2020 Readership
Website visitors
325,965
| userType | users |
|---|---|
| New Visitor | 323,711 |
| Returning Visitor | 40,273 |
Unique page views
492,934
Top website stories for 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 45,915 |
| Three stage COVID-safe roadmap aims to have Australia “working again” in July | Croakey | 9,019 |
| Dear Australia, elegy for a summer of loss | Croakey | 7,778 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 4,856 |
| Right of reply: Professor Stephen Duckett responds to Health Minister’s attack | Croakey | 4,067 |
| Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally – or accomplice? | Croakey | 3,838 |
| Past time to tell the public: “It will probably go pandemic, and we should all prepare now” | Croakey | 3,617 |
| At a time of looming crisis, a vision for health system transformation | Croakey | 3,158 |
| COVID-19: Lessons from South Korea’s quick response | Croakey | 3,045 |
| The good, the bad and the ugly: a lesson in COVID crisis communications from Victoria’s CHO | Croakey | 3,038 |
Website traffic sources
| source | sessions |
|---|---|
| 172,820 | |
| (direct) | 104,897 |
| t.co | 51,889 |
| m.facebook.com | 42,058 |
| linkedin.com | 6,692 |
| content.isentia.io | 5,623 |
| hs_email | 4,915 |
| bing | 4,403 |
| facebook.com | 3,878 |
| transition.meltwater.com | 2,984 |
Croakey has posted articles to the Apple News platform since 2015.
Unique Viewers
88,945
13%
Reach
1,093,313
9%
Shares
1,399
-12%
Top website stories for December 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,557 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 1,514 |
| ‘Don’t move them, free them’: anguish continues for Medevac refugees | Croakey | 653 |
| WHO 2020 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: what is new and why it matters | Croakey | 556 |
| No wrong door: the case for holistic approaches to alcohol, other drugs and mental health | Croakey | 520 |
| Woolworths: a case study of the commercial determinants of health – and how communities can fight back | Croakey | 517 |
| Time to check into new hotel quarantine arrangements in Australia | Croakey | 475 |
| Supply chains, trade, and lessons from COVID-19 | Croakey | 438 |
| ‘Put people above profits’, urge NT community groups in open letter opposing Dan Murphy’s NT megastore | Croakey | 394 |
| ‘We have lost not one Elder’: NACCHO CEO Pat Turner reflects on Aboriginal community successes in COVID-19 | Croakey | 394 |
Top Apple News stories for December 2020
Top website stories for November 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,127 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 1,442 |
| Opening pubs, bars and nightclubs: what are the risks? | Croakey | 963 |
| Causes of death data 2019: what does this mean for suicide prevention? | Croakey | 526 |
| Aged Care Royal Commission missing the digital health opportunity | Croakey | 512 |
| ‘Climate damage is here now — and it is killing people’: hundreds of Australian health workers sign open letter condemning emissions inaction | Croakey | 512 |
| Landmark mental health report urges reform. But we need more than Band-Aids | Croakey | 487 |
| Dr Anthony Fauci on politicising public health, lessons from HIV, and COVID challenges to come | Croakey | 445 |
| Locked up in lockdown: the COVID-19 toll for prisoners and their loved ones | Croakey | 371 |
| As South Australia grapples with COVID cluster, some lessons from Shepparton | Croakey | 359 |
Top Apple News stories for November 2020
Top website stories for October 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,033 |
| “This is just taking off”: UK, Victorian experts on outlook, lessons for COVID-19 | Croakey | 2,483 |
| COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation | Croakey | 1,900 |
| Wrapping reaction to Federal Budget and its implications for health and healthcare | Croakey | 1,695 |
| ‘Dying in a leadership vacuum’: top medical, science journals come out against Trump | Croakey | 1,313 |
| Budget 2020 and mental health: what is the strategy? | Croakey | 1,296 |
| Opening pubs, bars and nightclubs: what are the risks? | Croakey | 906 |
| Budget 2020-21 – Wrapping responses from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups | Croakey | 840 |
| COVID+ Pathways: Victoria’s second-wave successes and the social determinants of health | Croakey | 767 |
| Journalists, press conferences and COVID-19 | Croakey | 698 |
Top Apple News stories for October 2020
Top website stories for September 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,424 |
| Diagnostic imaging scans for back pain: three things they can do, three things they can’t | Croakey | 2,498 |
| Unmasking privilege, stress, anxiety and cruelty in the pandemic | Croakey | 1,383 |
| Why this public health academic is looking forward to going back to work | Croakey | 1,216 |
| Journalists, press conferences and COVID-19 | Croakey | 1,077 |
| The National Preventive Health Strategy needs your help (desperately) | Croakey | 998 |
| Three stage COVID-safe roadmap aims to have Australia “working again” in July | Croakey | 905 |
| Mental health consumers, advocates call for Four Corners apology | Croakey | 824 |
| Six steps to stopping germs: new video launch | Croakey | 596 |
| Opening pubs, bars and nightclubs: what are the risks? | Croakey | 560 |
Top Apple News stories for September 2020
Top website stories for August 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,788 |
| The Health Wrap: detailed update on coronavirus vaccine development, aged care and oral health – and an inspirational woman | Croakey | 2,575 |
| How many healthcare workers need to be infected before you will protect us, Premier? | Croakey | 2,544 |
| Wanted: Merchant of Doubt to deliver ‘intellectual dominance’ in alcohol policy | Croakey | 1,259 |
| Mental health needs more than more Medicare sessions | Croakey | 967 |
| Boris Johnson: could he really be a champion for public health? | Croakey | 811 |
| Be kind, focus on equity, avoid complacency, stay connected – and other pandemic reflections | Croakey | 790 |
| Imagine a mental health system that meets the needs of consumers and carers | Croakey | 609 |
| Australian Medical Association new leadership team – what does this mean for health policy? | Croakey | 577 |
| Improving the care of people with head and neck cancer: new video series | Croakey | 575 |
Top Apple News stories for August 2020
Top website stories for July 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,657 |
| Right of reply: Professor Stephen Duckett responds to Health Minister’s attack | Croakey | 3,844 |
| “Nothing about us, without us”: performative allyship and telling silences | Croakey | 1,597 |
| No place for racism in healthcare | Croakey | 1,135 |
| What will new restrictions on telehealth mean for healthcare access? | Croakey | 1,022 |
| Sir Michael Marmot: When the pandemic crashed down, we were not well prepared as a society | Croakey | 955 |
| Amid dramatic lockdowns in Melbourne, the Australian Medical Association calls for pause in easing of COVID-19 restrictions | Croakey | 862 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts call for immediate action to avert mental health crisis | Croakey | 615 |
| Amid global chaos, what is the future for prevention? | Croakey | 603 |
| Vale Dr Harry Nespolon, a “fierce advocate” for general practice | Croakey | 575 |
Top Apple News stories for July 2020
Top website stories for June 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,127 |
| Three stage COVID-safe roadmap aims to have Australia “working again” in July | Croakey | 1,861 |
| Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally – or accomplice? | Croakey | 1,271 |
| What does killing off COAG mean for health, climate change, transparency and much more? | Croakey | 706 |
| Alarm over how the pandemic response is undermining public health sector | Croakey | 705 |
| Complex systems modelling can guide policy and practice | Croakey | 597 |
| Is this a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create healthier ways of working? | Croakey | 579 |
| Are we picking the right horse in the critical mental health race? | Croakey | 578 |
| What some health leaders are hoping might emerge from pandemic disruption | Croakey | 501 |
| The Health Wrap: on the moral determinants of health, plus concerns about food insecurity, racism and other inequities | Croakey | 487 |
Top Apple News stories for June 2020
Top website stories for May 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Three stage COVID-safe roadmap aims to have Australia “working again” in July | Croakey | 5,015 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,136 |
| Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally – or accomplice? | Croakey | 1,562 |
| Monitoring COVID policing | Croakey | 979 |
| What can the rest of Australia learn from Burnie and other local outbreaks? | Croakey | 944 |
| It’s time for a parachute analogy, as well as pandemic communications that are respectful | Croakey | 697 |
| Outpatient clinics: a policy renovator’s opportunity | Croakey | 688 |
| COVID-19 and nuclear weapons | Croakey | 657 |
| An epidemic of junk food marketing | Croakey | 644 |
| Two additional measures that are needed to avoid a second wave of COVID-19 | Croakey | 641 |
Top Apple News stories for May 2020
Top website stories for April 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,341 |
| Bullet proofing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from COVID-19 | Croakey | 1,159 |
| How an “unconscionable” act by Trump created a chorus of support for the World Health Organization | Croakey | 1,084 |
| Looking for answers as a regional community comes under the national spotlight | Croakey | 1,079 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups step up to coronavirus challenge | Croakey | 1,048 |
| COVID-19 has our attention, but other emergencies are destroying our foundations | Croakey | 1,046 |
| The good, the bad and the ugly: a lesson in COVID crisis communications from Victoria’s CHO | Croakey | 1,019 |
| An urgent call for governments to improve pandemic communications, and address health literacy concerns | Croakey | 978 |
| It’s time for a parachute analogy, as well as pandemic communications that are respectful | Croakey | 650 |
| Walgett community unites to tackle pandemic-related food shortages | Croakey | 624 |
Top Apple News stories for April 2020
Top website stories for March 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,390 |
| COVID-19: Lessons from South Korea’s quick response | Croakey | 2,572 |
| Urgent calls for more resources to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from COVID-19 | Croakey | 2,419 |
| Psychiatrists press for sweeping expansion of telehealth as part of pandemic responses | Croakey | 1,672 |
| On #COVID19, how are Australia and the rest of the world shaping up? | Croakey | 1,500 |
| We need to change our thinking and communication, urgently, to beat COVID—19 | Croakey | 1,288 |
| Not a time to throw evidence out the window | Croakey | 1,166 |
| Making the most of telehealth in COVID-19 responses, and beyond | Croakey | 1,043 |
| The good, the bad and the ugly: a lesson in COVID crisis communications from Victoria’s CHO | Croakey | 824 |
| Australia activates pandemic plan as COVID-19 outbreak gathers pace | Croakey | 772 |
Top Apple News stories for March 2020
Top website stories for February 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,680 |
| Past time to tell the public: “It will probably go pandemic, and we should all prepare now” | Croakey | 2,645 |
| At a time of looming crisis, a vision for health system transformation | Croakey | 967 |
| Australia activates pandemic plan as COVID-19 outbreak gathers pace | Croakey | 869 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 664 |
| Public health alert: human rights and the coronavirus outbreak | Croakey | 463 |
| When health research becomes traumatic | Croakey | 397 |
| My summer: climate change, mental health and solastalgia | Croakey | 393 |
| Seven snapshots from the National Climate Emergency Summit | Croakey | 328 |
| Australia condemns ‘abhorrent’ racist backlash as coronavirus officially named | Croakey | 326 |
Top Apple News stories for February 2020
Top website stories for January 2020
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Dear Australia, elegy for a summer of loss | Croakey | 7,190 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,618 |
| In the wake of devastation and disaster, a letter to the Prime Minister | Croakey | 2,610 |
| From the frontlines: public health and a suffocating city | Croakey | 2,276 |
| Health leaders share reflections from the fires, ruins and front-lines, with some pointed messages | Croakey | 1,141 |
| Where is the comprehensive public health response to the bushfire climate emergency? | Croakey | 815 |
| At a time of looming crisis, a vision for health system transformation | Croakey | 706 |
| Debating Aboriginal identity: the untold health impacts | Croakey | 655 |
| Profiling a social innovation that is providing a safe haven for those in mental health need | Croakey | 631 |
| Learning from Denmark | Croakey | 577 |
Top Apple News stories for January 2020
2019 Readership
Website visitors
188,853
| userType | users |
|---|---|
| New Visitor | 186,668 |
| Returning Visitor | 25,180 |
Unique page views
302,026
Top website stories for 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 42,056 |
| I’m an Emergency Department worker and no, I’m not OK | Croakey | 14,221 |
| Dear Anonymous: An open letter to a system in crisis | Croakey | 6,079 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 4,726 |
| RUOK? No, say our emergency departments and hospitals | Croakey | 4,124 |
| “I ask everyone working in public health and other health fields to put down tools” – and read this | Croakey | 3,704 |
| The real reasons people don’t vaccinate | Croakey | 2,204 |
| Calls for national preventive health strategy to address poverty and other determinants of health | Croakey | 2,017 |
| Let’s Get Real about Funding for Mental Health | Croakey | 1,871 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives urge protection of birthing trees | Croakey | 1,503 |
Website traffic sources
| source | sessions |
|---|---|
| 86,842 | |
| (direct) | 70,276 |
| m.facebook.com | 38,335 |
| t.co | 27,504 |
| facebook.com | 6,072 |
| bing | 3,439 |
| linkedin.com | 3,266 |
| content.isentia.io | 1,673 |
| apple.news | 1,228 |
| app.mediaportal.com | 960 |
Croakey has posted articles to the Apple News platform since 2015.
Unique Viewers
99,641
90%
Reach
1,279,309
99%
Shares
1,967
59%
Top website stories for December 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,647 |
| Concerns raised about national alcohol strategy, amid shock departure of key public health advocate | Croakey | 1,012 |
| Reflections and lessons from Christchurch Hospital and the frontlines of an emergency response to violent trauma | Croakey | 808 |
| As Sydney smokes, lung health experts declare climate change a medical emergency | Croakey | 786 |
| Time to end drug company distortion of medical evidence | Croakey | 404 |
| “Tone deaf” Yuendumu statement highlights cultural safety gaps | Croakey | 372 |
| Getting the most from bowel cancer screening with safe and appropriate colonoscopy care | Croakey | 325 |
| Suggesting some disruptive solutions to the crisis in Emergency Departments | Croakey | 311 |
| Healthy urban planning: why is it so hard to achieve, and what might help? | Croakey | 279 |
| Inspiration from on high: the doctor who became a “serial tree-sitter” | Croakey | 243 |
Top Apple News stories for December 2019
Top website stories for November 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,507 |
| Heed the lessons from the pelvic mesh scandal | Croakey | 1,159 |
| Dear Anonymous: An open letter to a system in crisis | Croakey | 1,070 |
| Urgently needed: health equity responders to Productivity Commission on mental health | Croakey | 665 |
| Department of Health’s tightly constrained, highly managed budget inhibits innovation – Duckett | Croakey | 574 |
| Calls for alternatives to police in mental health crises | Croakey | 572 |
| I’m an Emergency Department worker and no, I’m not OK | Croakey | 564 |
| Doctors take to the streets, medical colleges declare a health emergency, and communities suffer climate health impacts | Croakey | 549 |
| Emergency medicine doctors at forefront of climate action and advocacy | Croakey | 494 |
| The ‘Catch it Early’ bandwagon: do the media overhype medical testing for healthy people? | Croakey | 465 |
Top Apple News stories for November 2019
Top website stories for October 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| I’m an Emergency Department worker and no, I’m not OK | Croakey | 13,510 |
| Dear Anonymous: An open letter to a system in crisis | Croakey | 4,967 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,845 |
| Calling for an end to unhealthy transport policies that put cars first | Croakey | 878 |
| What is overdiagnosed cancer? And why does it matter? | Croakey | 644 |
| The Empathy Museum: addressing compassion fatigue in the caring professions | Croakey | 394 |
| Newsflash! Politicians talk about social determinants of health and prevention at #RMA19 | Croakey | 377 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 374 |
| How to improve car insurance: lessons from private health insurance | Croakey | 351 |
| The Private Health Insurance dilemma: a product in search of a role | Croakey | 324 |
Top Apple News stories for October 2019
Top website stories for September 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| RUOK? No, say our emergency departments and hospitals | Croakey | 3,772 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,492 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 438 |
| The real reasons people don’t vaccinate | Croakey | 432 |
| Health professionals and complementary therapies: what can consumers reasonably expect? | Croakey | 395 |
| The unattractive truth about misogyny in medicine and medical research | Croakey | 371 |
| “The Earth is critically ill”: A call for action from emergency physicians | Croakey | 355 |
| #JustJustice – tackling the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples | Croakey | 275 |
| Calling for climate justice for disabled people | Croakey | 223 |
| Climate change isn’t (just) about saving the planet: it’s the social justice issue of our time | Croakey | 219 |
Top Apple News stories for September 2019
Top website stories for August 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,777 |
| Launching a new series: TOO MUCH of a good thing | Croakey | 819 |
| New guidelines to improve care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at risk of self-harm and suicide | Croakey | 689 |
| Profiling a social innovation that is providing a safe haven for those in mental health need | Croakey | 608 |
| Why our new “long term national health plan” does not deserve its name | Croakey | 485 |
| The unattractive truth about misogyny in medicine and medical research | Croakey | 475 |
| Given this history of strength and success, why do Aboriginal health dollars keep going to NINGOs? | Croakey | 398 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 389 |
| Walking the talk on mental health: an exercise in #NavigatingHealth | Croakey | 383 |
| “I ask everyone working in public health and other health fields to put down tools” – and read this | Croakey | 380 |
Top Apple News stories for August 2019
Top website stories for July 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,877 |
| “I ask everyone working in public health and other health fields to put down tools” – and read this | Croakey | 3,110 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 499 |
| Interpreting Medicare data and bulk billing figures | Croakey | 464 |
| New AMA and Guild leaders offer opportunity to focus on social determinants | Croakey | 400 |
| Harnessing the power of informatics to improve aged care | Croakey | 392 |
| National failure on alcohol policy: contributing to emergency department overload | Croakey | 343 |
| The Inala Manifesto: a call to arms for Indigenous health researchers | Croakey | 304 |
| Calls for national preventive health strategy to address poverty and other determinants of health | Croakey | 300 |
| Calls to end secrecy on trade negotiations underway this week, amid public health concerns | Croakey | 292 |
Top Apple News stories for July 2019
Top website stories for June 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,298 |
| Calls for national preventive health strategy to address poverty and other determinants of health | Croakey | 1,156 |
| NDIS – what’s next? | Croakey | 1,106 |
| Peter Yu delivers powerful calls to action at #LowitjaConf2019 | Croakey | 705 |
| 5 key questions to drive mental health reform now | Croakey | 559 |
| Tackling loneliness: a public health challenge for mental health advocates? | Croakey | 539 |
| Calls to support crowdfunding campaign for Professor Chris Del Mar | Croakey | 375 |
| Mental ill-health: The #1 public health challenge of our time | Croakey | 321 |
| On the power of poetic praxiology, and seven principles of change in complex systems | Croakey | 297 |
| The real reasons people don’t vaccinate | Croakey | 286 |
Top Apple News stories for June 2019
Top website stories for May 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 4,122 |
| A devastating account of the NDIS, shared at #AusVotesHealth | Croakey | 868 |
| Announcing program for #AusVotesHealth Twitter festival: tune in on 8 May and beyond | Croakey | 396 |
| I’m too young to vote so tell me, what’s more important than the climate crisis? | Croakey | 393 |
| New minimum standards to apply for clinical trials in Australia | Croakey | 376 |
| We’ve got this: response to climate crisis must transcend politics | Croakey | 366 |
| “I cry at the suffering that does not need to be”: Bearing witness to harsh asylum seeker policies | Croakey | 355 |
| We have an election campaign, but where is the investment in an active Australia? | Croakey | 323 |
| How do election policies stack up for health? Check out this handy scorecard compilation | Croakey | 320 |
| Why Australia needs to improve in health literacy | Croakey | 310 |
Top Apple News stories for May 2019
Top website stories for April 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,771 |
| “Cultural safety history repeats: why are we taking the redefinition road?” | Croakey | 565 |
| Wrapping reaction to Federal Budget and its implications for health and healthcare | Croakey | 552 |
| So we have a new national framework for chronic conditions… | Croakey | 502 |
| Breastfeeding training – why health professionals aren’t getting enough | Croakey | 473 |
| Why the physical health of people with mental illness is a critical human rights issue | Croakey | 456 |
| What does a good cataract service look like? | Croakey | 310 |
| Budget 2019/20 – Responses from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups | Croakey | 277 |
| Arresting declining Aboriginal Health Worker numbers essential to Closing the Gap | Croakey | 275 |
| Are we now at a point in maternity care where we are causing harm? | Croakey | 264 |
Top Apple News stories for April 2019
Top website stories for March 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,559 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives urge protection of birthing trees | Croakey | 1,129 |
| Are we now at a point in maternity care where we are causing harm? | Croakey | 771 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 601 |
| “Get on with building a health system that is simpler, fairer and more affordable for all” | Croakey | 579 |
| The challenge of implementing integrated health care | Croakey | 577 |
| A call to acknowledge the harmful history of nursing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | Croakey | 467 |
| We are privatising public hospitals – and we don’t even know (Part One) | Croakey | 399 |
| What’s next to address gender inequity in health and medical leadership? Quotas? | Croakey | 366 |
| We are privatising public hospitals – and we don’t even know (Part Two) | Croakey | 310 |
Top Apple News stories for March 2019
Top website stories for February 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,809 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 759 |
| MBS Mental Health Review: time to shift from fee-for-service to integrated systems | Croakey | 497 |
| Kimberley inquest: a cry for help from young Indigenous Australians | Croakey | 339 |
| Waminda position statement – forced adoptions | Croakey | 291 |
| Water Is Life National Gathering sends strong messages to health sector | Croakey | 283 |
| Time for justice – disabled people have waited long enough | Croakey | 273 |
| Let’s Get Real about Funding for Mental Health | Croakey | 244 |
| #JournalWatch: The obesity crisis and learning from failures in public health | Croakey | 242 |
| Labor would set up Aust Health Reform Commission if it wins 2019 poll | Croakey | 240 |
Top Apple News stories for February 2019
Top website stories for January 2019
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,352 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 638 |
| Is the Medical Research Future Fund fulfilling its mission as promised? | Croakey | 528 |
| Whatever you do, don’t get sick: Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay on prisoner health | Croakey | 415 |
| #LockHospitals2019 – marking a day for healing, remembrance and release | Croakey | 395 |
| MBS Review for reforms in primary care: who will ensure these proposals are properly considered? | Croakey | 308 |
| We need a primary health care national minimum data set | Croakey | 289 |
| Inclusion the key to improved health for people with a disability | Croakey | 274 |
| The EAT – Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems | Croakey | 221 |
| Invitation: Join a healing ceremony as part of #LockHospitals2019 year of acknowledgement | Croakey | 195 |
Top Apple News stories for January 2019
2018 Readership
Website visitors
147,658
| userType | users |
|---|---|
| New Visitor | 145,374 |
| Returning Visitor | 22,080 |
Unique page views
251,031
Top website stories for 2018
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 40,539 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 6,770 |
| An important overview of the pros, cons and questions about My Health Record | Croakey | 2,513 |
| On the personal toll for Indigenous advocates and people when governments fail to act | Croakey | 2,362 |
| Let’s Get Real about Funding for Mental Health | Croakey | 2,330 |
| Busting five myths about cultural safety – please take note, Sky News et al | Croakey | 1,986 |
| “Bilo” – the little country town that is roaring in defence of asylum seekers | Croakey | 1,928 |
| Mandatory bicycle helmet laws in Australia: is it time for a change? | Croakey | 1,851 |
| Out of pocket costs: a critical health issue to watch in 2018 – but first, some history | Croakey | 1,704 |
| Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke – In Memoriam | Croakey | 1,698 |
Website traffic sources
| source | sessions |
|---|---|
| 79,867 | |
| (direct) | 58,592 |
| t.co | 28,102 |
| m.facebook.com | 14,976 |
| facebook.com | 4,974 |
| transition.meltwater.com | 2,260 |
| linkedin.com | 2,199 |
| bing | 1,339 |
| l.facebook.com | 1,318 |
| apple.news | 1,084 |
Croakey has posted articles to the Apple News platform since 2015.
Unique Viewers
52,221
Reach
640,961
Shares
1,233
Top website stories for December 2018
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 2,480 |
| Time for a national response to the epidemic of silicosis from manufactured stone benchtop use in Australia | Croakey | 1,168 |
| Child health is on the line as Codex deliberates food standards | Croakey | 495 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 404 |
| Activity-based funding and prevention: a message for state governments | Croakey | 345 |
| Self-determination is at the heart of suicide prevention for Indigenous Peoples | Croakey | 327 |
| Latest Atlas of healthcare variation highlights caesarean, antibiotic, PPI, antipsychotic rates | Croakey | 307 |
| Celebrating success in health promotion – and identifying challenges ahead | Croakey | 289 |
| Health sector urged to oppose “institutional cruelty” inflicted on asylum seekers and refugees | Croakey | 228 |
| Romlie Mokak to be Productivity Commission’s first Indigenous Policy Evaluation Commissioner | Croakey | 211 |
Top Apple News stories for December 2018
Top website stories for November 2018
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 3,608 |
| RANZCO urged to apologise to first Indigenous ophthalmologist – and more news from #MovingBeyondTheFrontline | Croakey | 851 |
| An important overview of the pros, cons and questions about My Health Record | Croakey | 519 |
| Flying blind: uninformed decision-making in mental health | Croakey | 496 |
| As Australia works towards a national obesity strategy, here’s something we prepared earlier | Croakey | 486 |
| The high price of healthy school canteens | Croakey | 455 |
| Activity-based funding and prevention: a message for state governments | Croakey | 426 |
| Holy Smokes! This is one sick system – talking burnout, at #ACEM18 | Croakey | 422 |
| Strong calls for action to address flaws with NDIS for people with mental health issues | Croakey | 366 |
| Global reports on corruption in health care raise questions for Australia | Croakey | 359 |
Top Apple News stories for November 2018
Analytics for previous years can be found on this page.
