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The posting benchmark

Asheville Citizen-Times on Facebook, beside its peers

How Asheville Citizen-Times's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 107 peers: news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers.

Sub-region
North America
Region
Americas
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
100k to 1m

Within United States

Asheville Citizen-Times: 20.2 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 6.4 fewer a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day82nd/108Photos and video54th/108Evening posts4th/33Weekend day14th/33
Engagement per post74th/108Engagement a day79th/108Per 1,000 followers62nd/108Comments per post81st/108Comments a day80th/108

Asheville Citizen-Times, United States

82ndof 108

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Asheville Citizen-Times posted 20.2 times a day to Facebook, 36% less than the median of 107 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

Its first gap: posts a day

11.5 more posts a day would reach its peers' median. What it would take

See all nine measures

Asheville Citizen-Times's 107 peers, lifted out of the 950 news brands in the comparison, placed by posts a day. The scale is logarithmic, so 1 to 10 takes the same width as 10 to 100.

Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

At a glance

Asheville Citizen-Times beside 107 peers

Asheville Citizen-Times and its peers, measure by measure. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.
MeasureFigureRank among its peers, highest firstMedian of its peers
Posts a day20.282nd of 10831.7
Photos and video60%54th of 10859%
Evening posts30%4th of 3324%
Weekend day76%14th of 3371.8%
Engagement per post674th of 10810
Engagement a day1,44779th of 1083,000
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.04762nd of 1080.053
Comments per post1381st of 10825
Comments a day26480th of 108748

What it would take

What would reaching the median of its peers take?

11.5more posts a day

81 a week, to reach the median of its peers: 31.7 a day, against 20.2 now

Arithmetic on the figures above, rounded up. It isn't a forecast.

The other measures, in posts

  • At or above the median of its peers on photos and video, evening posts and a weekend day.

Posting

Posts from your own stories, in the hours you choose

Each story you tick in the RSS feed gets a poster from your template, and each channel's queue spreads the posts across its own slots, so posting more of your stories doesn't mean making more cards by hand. A story needs a photo unless the template uses a solid background.

Auto-pilot starts with Friday 15:00–21:00 and Saturday and Sunday 07:00–21:00, every 15 minutes, and an organisation admin can change the days, hours and interval.

Today's queue on The Port Arden Post's Facebook channel.

Publishing · The Port Arden Post

FICTIONAL NEWSROOM

Today · Tue 6 Oct

  1. 11:00Greyport cannery confirms 40 jobs at riskNext · in 16 min
  2. 12:30Opinion: The ferry fare rise is the wrong fix
  3. 14:00Night markets return to the Greyport waterfront this Friday
FIG. 1 · Today's queue on The Port Arden Post's Facebook channel. All mastheads, people, handles and comments shown are fictional. Illustrative figures. Labels as they appear in Sence, September 2026.

Comments

The comments that come with them

Asheville Citizen-Times's Facebook posts drew 264 comments a day, 65% less than the median of 107 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

Posts you publish through Sence go out to a comment section Sence is already watching.

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Whether a gap comes from choice or from staffing, Sence does the card-making and the scheduling, so how many of your stories reach each platform is up to your desk, within each platform's limits.

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Sence doesn't forecast what posting more will do for your reach, engagement or revenue. If you switch on link tagging, your own analytics can see the visits each platform sends.

Head to head

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Day by day

How Asheville Citizen-Times posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 107 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Asheville Citizen-Times
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Asheville Citizen-Times, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayAsheville Citizen-TimesMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June1727
Tuesday 30 June1729
Wednesday 1 July2133
Thursday 2 July1930
Friday 3 July2629
Saturday 4 July1921
Sunday 5 July1620
Monday 6 July1926
Tuesday 7 July2130
Wednesday 8 July2330
Thursday 9 July2431
Friday 10 July2328
Saturday 11 July2224
Sunday 12 July1824
Monday 13 July2128
Tuesday 14 July2230
Wednesday 15 July2334
Thursday 16 July2333
Friday 17 July2430
Saturday 18 July2223
Sunday 19 July1622
Monday 20 July1727
Tuesday 21 July2031
Wednesday 22 July2332
Thursday 23 July2434
Friday 24 July2331
Saturday 25 July2226
Sunday 26 July822
Monday 27 July1528
Tuesday 28 July2334
Wednesday 29 July2234
Thursday 30 July2235
Friday 31 July2432
Saturday 1 August1926
Sunday 2 August1621
Monday 3 August1629
Tuesday 4 August2235
Wednesday 5 August2335
Thursday 6 August2333
Friday 7 August2036
Saturday 8 August2226
Sunday 9 August1822
Monday 10 August1629
Tuesday 11 August2132
Wednesday 12 August2234
Thursday 13 August2034
Friday 14 August2234
Saturday 15 August2227
Sunday 16 August1621
Monday 17 August1630
Tuesday 18 August1932
Wednesday 19 August2037
Thursday 20 August2135
Friday 21 August2232
Saturday 22 August2129
Sunday 23 August1321
Monday 24 August1630
Tuesday 25 August2133
Wednesday 26 August2233
Thursday 27 August2034
Friday 28 August2136
Saturday 29 August2229
Sunday 30 August1723
Monday 31 August1730
Tuesday 1 September2234
Wednesday 2 September2336
Thursday 3 September2034
Friday 4 September2036
Saturday 5 September2327
Sunday 6 September1323
Monday 7 September1221
Tuesday 8 September1729
Wednesday 9 September2136
Thursday 10 September2238
Friday 11 September2235
Saturday 12 September2228
Sunday 13 September1422
Monday 14 September1429
Tuesday 15 September2438
Wednesday 16 September2636
Thursday 17 September2535
Friday 18 September2435
Saturday 19 September2230
Sunday 20 September2428

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by Asheville Citizen-Times in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourAsheville Citizen-TimesMedian of its peers
00:000.1%1.3%
01:003.1%1.2%
02:000%0.5%
03:002.1%0.7%
04:000%0.3%
05:003.5%4.5%
06:004.9%5.2%
07:005.2%5.2%
08:005.2%5.5%
09:005.1%5.7%
10:005%5.6%
11:007.4%5.7%
12:004.8%4.8%
13:004.8%6.1%
14:004.8%5.6%
15:004.7%5.7%
16:005%5.5%
17:004.7%5.5%
18:004.5%5.3%
19:004.6%5%
20:008.2%4.6%
21:004.3%4.4%
22:004.4%3.9%
23:003.6%2.2%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by Asheville Citizen-Times on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayAsheville Citizen-TimesMedian of its peers
Monday20.230.9
Tuesday21.330.9
Wednesday22.433.3
Thursday21.731.4
Friday22.833
Saturday20.826.4
Sunday12.321.5

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by Asheville Citizen-Times, and the median across its peers.
FormatAsheville Citizen-TimesIts peers, median
Photo39%55%
Video or reel18%3%
Album3%0%
Link40%42%
Text only0%0%
Other0%0%

The detail

When it posts, and who it's compared with

When it posts, day by day and hour by hourEvery day of the 12 weeks, every hour of the day and what it posts, beside the median of its peers.
  • Asheville Citizen-Times, 18:00 to midnight: 30%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 24%
  • On a weekend day, Asheville Citizen-Times posted 76% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 71.8%.

Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

Who is it compared with?Where each of its peers is based, and every one of them by name.

Asheville Citizen-Times's peers are 107 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 107 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 107 peers, A to Z

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