2021 Readership
Website visitors
274,892
| userType | users |
|---|---|
| New Visitor | 273,436 |
| Returning Visitor | 33,798 |
Page views
559,995
Top website stories for 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 31,516 |
| Flinders University under fire over “shameful and stupid” move against leading academics – Croakey Health Media | 18,991 |
| Croakey | independent, in-depth social journalism for health | 15,011 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 9,471 |
| (not set) | 6,482 |
| Flashback: COVID-19 and the Death of the Hippie in the Northern Rivers region – Croakey Health Media | 6,402 |
| 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 |
| Flinders University urged to reverse “unfathomable and ill-conceived” decision to axe leading institute – Croakey Health Media | 4,820 |
| Sydney’s first drive-through vaccination clinic is a hit – listen to interview with Dr Jamal Rifi – Croakey Health Media | 4,227 |
| Under pressure: health leaders express deep concerns as Australia marks bleak COVID milestone – Croakey Health Media | 3,920 |
Website traffic sources
| source | sessions |
|---|---|
| 140,391 | |
| (direct) | 102,410 |
| t.co | 33,675 |
| m.facebook.com | 20,228 |
| hs_email | 8,017 |
| flipboard.com | 7,611 |
| linkedin.com | 4,943 |
| content.isentia.io | 4,650 |
| bing | 3,424 |
| l.facebook.com | 3,347 |
Croakey has posted articles to the Apple News platform since 2015.
Unique Viewers
19,388
Total views
32,673
Reach
310,995
Top website stories for December 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 2,460 |
| At long last, we have a National Preventive Health Strategy. What next? – Croakey Health Media | 593 |
| As symposium spotlights public health workforce concerns, young researchers call for action – Croakey Health Media | 552 |
| Death in paradise: when COVID came to Vanuatu – Croakey Health Media | 507 |
| Generation Equality: Why feminism is more relevant than ever – Croakey Health Media | 397 |
| Stretched and burnt out: an urgent need to invest in the public health workforce – Croakey Health Media | 368 |
| The Minister for Unfinished Business leaves plenty of scope for successor – Croakey Health Media | 333 |
| The Health Wrap: Omicron, perceptions of science, unicorns, and wide-ranging workforce matters. Also, the Scrub Choir Plus – Croakey Health Media | 313 |
| Mental Health Plan delayed – six key bear traps – Croakey Health Media | 294 |
| Global health leaders to address corporate and other drivers of unhealthy food systems – Croakey Health Media | 287 |
Top Apple News stories for December 2021
Top website stories for November 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 4,540 |
| Reflecting upon difficult times, an impossible situation and next steps: Professor Fran Baum – Croakey Health Media | 2,979 |
| Hopes for nursing and midwifery apology to Indigenous people after long silence – Croakey Health Media | 815 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 776 |
| Flinders University under fire over “shameful and stupid” move against leading academics – Croakey Health Media | 720 |
| Death in paradise: when COVID came to Vanuatu – Croakey Health Media | 564 |
| WA health experts call for end to junk food advertising on government property – Croakey Health Media | 513 |
| Profiling a social innovation that is providing a safe haven for those in mental health need – Croakey Health Media | 512 |
| How health and justice concerns are driving the rise of independent political candidates – Croakey Health Media | 501 |
| In the eye of the COVID storm, with grave dangers ahead – Croakey Health Media | 430 |
Top Apple News stories for November 2021
Note: Due to technical difficulties, Croakey Health Media’s publishing to Apple News was limited in October 2021.
Top website stories for October 2021
| pageTitle | pageviews |
|---|---|
| Flinders University under fire over “shameful and stupid” move against leading academics – Croakey Health Media | 18,093 |
| Croakey Health Media – informed, engaged communities for health | 4,979 |
| Flinders University urged to reverse “unfathomable and ill-conceived” decision to axe leading institute – Croakey Health Media | 4,336 |
| UK Map Maps of United Kingdom – Croakey Health Media | 3,869 |
| International borders are about to open, but our research shows the plight of stranded Australians is not over – Croakey Health Media | 3,464 |
| Self-determination essential for healing – Croakey Health Media | 1,754 |
| At a time when visionary leadership is sorely needed, don’t miss these five suggestions for transforming health – Croakey Health Media | 1,195 |
| Flashback: COVID-19 and the Death of the Hippie in the Northern Rivers region – Croakey Health Media | 1,107 |
| Sydney’s first drive-through vaccination clinic is a hit – listen to interview with Dr Jamal Rifi – Croakey Health Media | 1,074 |
| How the alcohol industry exerts influence to block life-saving policies – Croakey Health Media | 1,024 |
Top Apple News stories for October 2021
Note: Due to technical difficulties, Croakey Health Media’s publishing to Apple News was limited in October 2021.
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
