A frequent question on the minds of social media managers or even just a regular social media user is, "What is the best time to post on social media and how one can find it?" So to help you with this, our team of experts conducted a webinar where they discussed about how you can find your best time to post on social media based on your previous posts, which is an extremely easy process with the help of Statusbrew.
During the course of the blog, we'll be discussing about:
- Importance of analyzing best posting times
- Factors to analyze the best times for posting
- Best times for different platforms
- Using Statusbrew to find the best posting times
Why it is necessary to look for the best times for posting?
You tried hard to find that best picture for your Instagram. And, it's a big issue if the pictures you post do not get much attention as needed.
So how do you ensure to grab the interest of people and boost the impressions on your posts?
To bring more traffic, more engagement, and ultimately, more followers, one must keep in mind the best posting times for social media.
Social media is one of the best tools to boost your brand presence by sharing the great content that you've created for your audience. But ensure that you post the content at the right time for your audience to discover it.
There is a constant stream of content on a news feed that is waiting for attention from the followers. So it becomes very crucial to know how to stand-out and get maximum impressions on it. The primary factor that plays a keen part in post engagement is the posting time of content. Generally, whenever your most audience is active is the best time to get maximum engagement.
Factors to analyze the best times for posting on social media
Different social media platforms have different demographics and thus have a different time that works best for the audience. For example, A time suitable for Facebook audience may not be best for Twitter.
It gets even more complicated when you take into account different time zones. People from around the globe are present on social media. So there is a very less chance that your whole audience will be from the same time zone. If you're targeting the audience from the United States and Canada then you likely want to post in the EST zone whereas if your target audience is in London, you probably want to post within the GMT zone.
Moreover, it is not necessary that the best time will remain the same for all over the week. It may be different on weekends as compared to weekdays.
Although there is no exact answer to this because of the complexity of factors involved. But let us see some ideas about what can be the most optimum time to post the content on social media by analyzing each platform.
Best times to post for different social platforms
Monday to Friday are considered best for posting on Facebook. As the time is concerned, content posted from 11 AM to 4 PM, especially on Wednesday or Thursday gets maximum reach and engagement. Researches have proved that many brands don't post on Wednesday. So your content can get a good number of views at that time, as the probability of it being lost in the content feed is much less. Thus, it is considered the best day to post during weekdays.
The content posted on Sundays, early mornings, or late in the evening, usually after 5 PM are observed to have the least engagement among the Facebook audience.
This platform allows concise postings limited to 280 characters. So people usually like to read tweets during the commute period in weekdays or during their lunchtime. These preferred times are 8-10 AM, 12-1 PM and 5-8 PM. So visibility for your tweets will be maximum around these times.
Most of the researches agree, Tuesday to Thursday is usually the best time to tweet on Twitter while weekends have the least engagement.
Due to the platform's visual attraction, posting anytime on it can bring high impressions. Even then, in terms of best engagement, time slot suggested by most of the studies are 11 AM To 1 PM, 5-6 PM and 9-11 PM on any weekday from Tuesday to Friday. Here too, mid-week posts perform better than posts made on any other day, just like Facebook.
Time slots that are not preferred on Instagram are Mondays, Sundays, or late nights or very early in the mornings.
The safest time for it that has been found out by analyzing the data is usually 9-11 AM from Tuesday to Thursday. Since LinkedIn is a professional network, mostly professionals check out LinkedIn feed only during weekdays, and that too in the morning. Rest of the days are not much recommended for posting on this professional network as posts made on these days get the least engagement among the LinkedIn audience.
Because the usage pattern of every other individual is different on various social media platforms, these general time slots might not perform well for your audience.
However, you can find the solution on Statusbrew as it helps to analyze your previous posts and will give you the best time to post according to your audience for each social network.
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Using Statusbrew to get the best time
If you're using Statusbrew for the first time, follow these steps:
- On the bottom of the left navigation pane, click on add profile. Click on the profile you want to add.
- Enter your credentials, and that profile will be added to Statusbrew.
To see how your past posts have performed, follow the below steps:
- Click on Publish on the left navigation pane.
- Go to Reports in that section and click Content Performance.
Statusbrew will automatically populate report for you by analyzing your data. By default, it gives data for 30 days. However, you can customize it from the calendar tab on the top right corner of the window.
This content performance report is based on these eight parameters:
- Clicks
- Comments
- Engagements
- Impressions
- Likes
- Shares
- Reach
- Video views
By clicking on any of the above parameters, your data in the descending order of that particular parameter will appear. The report will definitely give you an idea that which of your content timings is best suited for the most engagement
Statusbrew has solved the problem of different time zones that was mentioned earlier in this blog in the form of Category. It makes your life much more comfortable with the availability of various post timings for each social platform. Even for a single time zone to understand which of them is working best for you and push out more content when your audience is most active.
For example, if you noticed that Facebook posts which were posted on Monday 4 PM did the best. You can create a category with these details and then while scheduling any Facebook post, you can select this category directly, and the post will be scheduled for Facebook for the coming Monday at 4 PM.
To create category follow these steps:
- Login to your Statusbrew dashboard and visit the Publish section
- Click on the Category from the side nav and further, click on Create Category on the top right side of your screen. Create Category window will appear.
- Type a Category Name.
- Now, choose the timezone from the save dropdown, in which you want to schedule your posts.
- Choose the date and time combinations that you wish to push your posts on. 6. You can add multiple times by clicking on the Add Time.
- Choose the desired color for your category and click Save.
You may experiment with different posting times in case you are not sure about your peak traffic hours for social media. Our reporting section and content performance insights would ease it out for you to strategize your best posting times. You can create multiple categories and add varied timings in each of them.
Once you have posted some content in each category, you can analyze which of them is working best for you and is allowing you to have maximum engagement. You can do it from the Report section of Statusbrew which have an option of category insights.
You will see how different categories have performed in the selected period. Also, you can compare different categories for each profile and see what time suits the best for your post. Under each category, you can click to see more details of performance like impressions, engagement, etc. and you can export these reports too.
Observe your audience behavior on social media with create category option and reporting feature of Statusbrew and get the best suited time to post content. Start your 7 day free trial now!
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