Best times to publish

Your busiest hours and day, your quietest window, and a suggested time to publish, worked out from when visitors really arrive.

What it does

Under the weekday × hour heatmap, a Best times panel answers the questions the heatmap raises: your busiest three hours, your busiest and quietest day, the single busiest hour of the week, your quietest three hours (a good window for updates or maintenance), how much traffic comes at weekends, and a suggested time to publish.

Why it matters

Sending a newsletter, posting on social media or shipping a big change goes better when you know when your readers are around, and when they are not.

How to use it

1. Find Best times under the When they visit heatmap (it needs 50 pageviews in the range).
2. Read your busiest 3 hours and day, the quietest window, the weekend share and the suggested time to publish.
3. Check your site’s time zone under Sites → ⚙ Manage, and click a page to see best times for that page only.

How it works

• Uses the same pageviews as the heatmap, in your site’s own timezone (set it under Manage site).
• Busiest and quietest windows are three hours long and can run past midnight.
• Weekends are compared with an even spread (2 of 7 days, about 29%).
• The suggested time to publish is an hour before your busiest stretch, on your busiest day, so a post is fresh when most people arrive.
• Appears once there are 50 pageviews in the range, and follows any filter on the dashboard.

Privacy

• Collected: Nothing new: pageview times you already collect
• No cookies, and nothing stored on the visitor’s device.
• Reports show totals only: never a visitor list, IP address or single visit.

Limits

• Needs 50 pageviews in the range
• Rows: 0 read beyond the dashboard, 0 written

Plans

Every plan, including Free. quietstats is free during launch: the Free plan covers 1 site and 5,000 pageviews a month, and no card is needed. See pricing.

Questions

Related

• When-they-visit heatmap
• Traffic forecast
• All dashboard & reports guides