Best Time To Post Blog on Website.

The Best Time To Publish a Blog Post on Your Website.

You might be wondering "when is the best time to post a blog on your website," or "best time to post a blog on WordPress," or any other content publishing system like Medium, Blogger, LinkedIn, or SEO Web Analyst. I must be honest, such thoughts do cross my mind.  If there is a correlation between the Days and Time that a post is being published with respect to the performance of the published post. This kind of topic is not a new approach to writing an article post that will help improve post engagement or reach, especially if you write for an audience you have built.

This same study has been conducted for social media sites, with users searching for the best time to post a blog on Facebook, on YouTube, etc. If you are interested in that school of thought, here is a post I highly recommend: "Best Times To Post on Social Media" for your reading enjoyment.

In this article, I will discuss how SEO Web Analyst Blog Curator can help you determine the best time to publish a post on the platform, and how the metrics correlate with blog post performance and the blog post engagement score.

Image courtesy: Neilpatel.com

The image above was taken from a last year's LinkedIn post from Neil Patel, and I quote:

"Here is the best day and time to publish a blog post. We analyzed 10,000 blog posts over the last 6 months to determine how publishing time affects traffic, social shares, and comments. We found that Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday are the best days to publish a post. As for timing, 6 a.m. to noon on Tuesday is ideal, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday is also ideal." ...Neil Patel Digital

Now, I believe that individual posts published by different authors will give different results. But the majority consensus on the days is quite on point, because when we analyzed our published post in terms of recent and oldest, we found out that Wednesday turned out to be the most consistent day, followed by Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for a duration analysis within 3 months, and for over this duration, we still had Wednesday still coming up frequently with Thurday being the only day that joined Friday, and Sunday for days not probably getting any relevancy.

Image: Best Time To Publish using SEO Web Analyst Blog Curator

We can say for a fact that this discovery absolutely backs this statement by medium.com/@kristinagod, who published her article post on a similar topic at https://medium.com/online-writing-101/ive-analyzed-over-500-of-my-articles-and-here-s-the-best-time-to-publish-on-medium-b58254cfe84d

I often get asked:

When is the best time to write and publish on Medium?

Usually, this would be my answer:

• Monday to Wednesday works very well.


• Monday morning tends to perform best; you’ll have the whole week to build up momentum.


• I would avoid any day past Thursday, particularly weekends.


• Not many people are on Medium on the weekends.

Image: Best Time To Publish using SEO Web Analyst Blog Curator

Publishing schedules vary by author because target audiences have different online habits. An analysis of my personal post-performance indicates the following optimal times:

• Mondays & Thursdays: Early morning


• Tuesdays: Evening


• Wednesdays: Noon

Image: Best Time To Publish using SEO Web Analyst Blog Curator

When looking closely at our top-performing posts for the selected period, our article on AI Content writer for SEO and blogging ranked first. Interestingly, this post drove high overall daily performance for the Wednesday stats, rather than a specific midday spike. Even though our peak hour recommendation target time for Wednesday is noon, this particular post gained traction later in the evening.

To confirm our curiosity with this finding for the specific post, we head to our shared analytics dashboard to view the top post-level performance and check that the post will be among the top-engagement posts published. This is the only metrics that display the post that was highlighted in our best time to publish analytic report. This links post engagement to being another hidden metric for the best time to publish a post on a website, as the same post was found in the top ten of the most engaged posts on the blog curator platform.

Conclusion:

Determining the best time to publish a blog post isn’t about following a pre-determined school of thought; rather, it’s about understanding your audience’s habits and testing what works for your content. While data suggests from Neil Patel and other analysts highlights midweek mornings (Tuesday–Thursday) as peak publishing windows, your own analytics may reveal unique engagement patterns. Tools like SEO Web Analyst, Blog Curator make it easier to track performance, uncover hidden metrics, and refine your publishing schedule. Ultimately, consistency, quality, and engagement all contribute to these results. Publish strategically, measure results, and let your readers’ behavior guide your timing.

To identify your best time and day to publish a post on the website, you will have to do that from the entries dashboard and use the Search Blog Curator select box. Use the "All Status" and select the best time insight. For a better result, you should have published post for a minimum of 3 month duration before utilizing this analytic, and If you are thinking, " How often should I post a blog on my website?", I advise doing a minimum of one post per week; this will help circulate your published post to your social media sites, and newsletter subscribers, if you have any captured by the platform (this advice applies generally and not only explicitly to the blog curator module tool by SEO Web Analyst). Sign up for the Enterprise plan to gain access to the Blog Curator module tool.