Have you ever wondered what are the best days and times to post on your blog? Have you ever wondered what day and what time the post may have more shares on various social?
If the answer is yes, then I am sure you will like this post.
Someone has already done an interesting study on this subject, and discovered the best times to post content on the blog and which are eventually shared on social networks.
Shareaholic has responded to this question. Its social share widgets extracted data from more than 200,000 sites that have this widget intstalled.
They’ve extracted the top 100 day of 2011 by getting the following 4 graphs(taken by Jason Keath on Social Fresh):
The first thing you’ll notice from the image above is that the day the post get more shares(31% of the total) is on Thursday, followed by Wednesday, Friday and Monday. In practice, the best days are the weekdays, from mid-week onwards.
From the point of view of page views, we can see that the situation is different, starting from the first day of the week: Monday is the first day of the week where you get more hits(43%), followed by Tuesday(28%), Wednesday (24%), and Thursday (5%).
“The early bird catches the worm”, and in fact 27% of the shares takes place between 8:00 and 12:00 (with a peak between 09:00 and 10:00). It is interesting to note another small growth curve during the night.
Finally, the graph of the pageviews: between 07:00 and 13:00 because our focus is the vast majority of traffic, with a peak between 09:00 and 10:00 (just like shares).
It would appear that publish on weekdays and as soon as people go to work, is the best way to get a busy blog and socially shared.











