Just recently, I’ve been able to write a few shorter posts all on one day, and have them scheduled for publication a few days into the future.
Within WordPress, I’m able to set the date for publication, but also the time as well. Now rather than random times, I’d been setting the time for 14:00 as I figure that this will be the time that people are either having a late lunch, or have just come back from lunch and have time for a quick snoop on the net before getting back to work. It also works out at about 9am (8am) in New York, and earlier the further west you go, which means that the blog already has new content on it for the that day, when the US wakes up or starts work.
Since writing this post, I’ve tried scheduling serious and worthwhile posts for 09:00 and silly, not-as-important posts for 14:00.
As of writing this post, I just realised I could look to see what times Google Analytics shows as being the visit times (click to enlarge):
Visit Times: Three graphs showing Visits, Page views and Page views/visit, all compared to time of the day when visitors came to this site.
There seems to be a peak for visits at around 11:00, page views at 11:00 and 22:00 while page views/visits peaks at 02:00.
This then leaves me totally confused at what might be the best time might be. Logic would suggest just before 11:00, but the peak isn’t significant enough to make a definite assumption.
So two questions for you:
- What times to do you schedule post publications for?
- What would you suggest is the best time for mine?
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