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The posting benchmark

Carlow Nationalist on Facebook, beside its peers

How Carlow Nationalist's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 156 peers: news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Europe with 10k to 100k followers.

Country
Ireland
Sub-region
UK and Ireland
Region
Europe
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
Under 100k

Within Ireland

Carlow Nationalist: 5.5 a day

Median in Ireland: 9.5 a day

That is 4.1 fewer a day than the median in Ireland.

Place the dots by

Posts a day117th/157Photos and video140th/157Evening posts147th/157Weekend day102nd/155
Engagement per post97th/157Engagement a day134th/157Per 1,000 followers74th/157Comments per post119th/157Comments a day133rd/157

Carlow Nationalist, Ireland

117thof 157

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Carlow Nationalist posted 5.5 times a day to Facebook, at least 39% less than the median of 156 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Europe with 10k to 100k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

Its first gap: evening posts

7 more of its posts a week between 18:00 and midnight would reach its peers' median. What it would take

See all nine measures

Carlow Nationalist's 156 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

Carlow Nationalist beside 156 peers

Carlow Nationalist 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 day5.5117th of 1579
Photos and video3%140th of 15727%
Evening posts8%147th of 15726%
Weekend day69%102nd of 15576%
Engagement per post997th of 15712
Engagement a day145134th of 157602
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.3674th of 1570.32
Comments per post4.3119th of 15710
Comments a day24133rd of 15790

What it would take

What would reaching the median of its peers take?

Carlow Nationalist's posts a day are at or above the median of its peers, so this starts with evening posts, where it sits furthest below them.

7more posts a week

between 18:00 and midnight, of its 38 a week: 3 now, 10 at the median of its peers

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

Posts in each local hour, beside the median of its peers

  • Carlow Nationalist
  • Median of its peers
  • 18:00 to midnight
  • Auto-pilot's starting hours
  • Carlow Nationalist, 18:00 to midnight: 8%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 26%
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Posts in each local hour, beside the median of its peers
HourCarlow NationalistMedian of its peers
00:000.4%0.1%
01:000.0%0.0%
02:000.0%0.0%
03:000.0%0.0%
04:000.0%0.0%
05:000.0%0.0%
06:000.0%3.4%
07:000.2%5.3%
08:000.9%6.6%
09:003.3%6.3%
10:0010.2%6.2%
11:0011.1%6.7%
12:0012.9%6.8%
13:0013.5%6.4%
14:0010.5%6.5%
15:008.7%6.4%
16:0012.2%6.5%
17:007.9%6.6%
18:004.1%7.1%
19:002.8%7.3%
20:000.7%6.1%
21:000.4%3.8%
22:000.2%1.5%
23:000.0%0.4%
Share of posts in each local hour over the 12 weeks, where each Page is based. Shaded: 18:00 to midnight. Hatched: auto-pilot's starting hours.

The other measures, in posts

  • Posts a day

    5.5 now; the median of its peers 9

    3.6 more a day, 25 a week

  • Photos and video

    3% of its posts; the median of its peers 27%

    10 more of its 38 posts a week as photos or video: 1 now, 11 at the median

  • Weekend day

    A weekend day: 69% of a weekday's posts; the median of its peers 76%

    2 more posts a weekend: 1 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday

Posts a day and the weekend add posts; photos and video and the evening move posts it already publishes. Each rounds up. It isn't a forecast.

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.

Auto-pilot's Saturday run on The Port Arden Post's Facebook queue.

Publishing · The Port Arden Post

FICTIONAL NEWSROOM

Sat 10 Oct

  1. 07:15Breaking: Crash closes the Arden Pass roadNext · in 15 min
  2. 07:30Semifinal tickets: what Gulls fans need to know
  3. 07:45Greyport Gulls name unchanged side for Saturday's semifinal
FIG. 1 · Auto-pilot's Saturday run on The Port Arden Post's Facebook queue. 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

Carlow Nationalist's Facebook posts drew 24 comments a day, at least 74% less than the median of 156 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Europe with 10k to 100k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

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

When a comment matches a rule you've switched on, Sence typically hides it within seconds and alerts whoever you choose. Replies are always sent by a person. Comments on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and your own site are read the moment they arrive. YouTube is checked every few minutes.

Sence builds a poster from your template for each story you tick, queues up to 30 stories at a time from your RSS feed, and lets auto-pilot fill the evening and weekend slots you choose. Auto-pilot's posts go out without review.

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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 Carlow Nationalist posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 156 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Carlow Nationalist
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
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Posts each day by Carlow Nationalist, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayCarlow NationalistMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June510
Tuesday 30 June710
Wednesday 1 July610
Thursday 2 July510.5
Friday 3 July411
Saturday 4 July48
Sunday 5 July58
Monday 6 July510
Tuesday 7 July710
Wednesday 8 July510
Thursday 9 July710
Friday 10 July410
Saturday 11 July47
Sunday 12 July48
Monday 13 July710
Tuesday 14 July710
Wednesday 15 July610
Thursday 16 July410
Friday 17 July510
Saturday 18 July48
Sunday 19 July37
Monday 20 July99
Tuesday 21 July59
Wednesday 22 July59.5
Thursday 23 July79
Friday 24 July69
Saturday 25 July47
Sunday 26 July27
Monday 27 July79
Tuesday 28 July610
Wednesday 29 July109
Thursday 30 July410
Friday 31 July79
Saturday 1 August68
Sunday 2 August57
Monday 3 August69
Tuesday 4 August610
Wednesday 5 August710
Thursday 6 August510
Friday 7 August119.5
Saturday 8 August67
Sunday 9 August37.5
Monday 10 August610
Tuesday 11 August510
Wednesday 12 August811
Thursday 13 August411
Friday 14 August710
Saturday 15 August58.5
Sunday 16 August78
Monday 17 August610
Tuesday 18 August511
Wednesday 19 August810
Thursday 20 August611
Friday 21 August511
Saturday 22 August47
Sunday 23 August48
Monday 24 August510.5
Tuesday 25 August810
Wednesday 26 August810
Thursday 27 August710
Friday 28 August311.5
Saturday 29 August38
Sunday 30 August37
Monday 31 August510
Tuesday 1 September610
Wednesday 2 September710
Thursday 3 September410
Friday 4 September510.5
Saturday 5 September38
Sunday 6 September28
Monday 7 September411
Tuesday 8 September69.5
Wednesday 9 September410
Thursday 10 September510.5
Friday 11 September710
Saturday 12 September58
Sunday 13 September48
Monday 14 September610.5
Tuesday 15 September711
Wednesday 16 September610
Thursday 17 September711
Friday 18 September511
Saturday 19 September58
Sunday 20 September48

Share of posts by local hour

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Share of posts by Carlow Nationalist in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourCarlow NationalistMedian of its peers
00:000.4%0.1%
01:000%0%
02:000%0%
03:000%0%
04:000%0%
05:000%0%
06:000%3.4%
07:000.2%5.3%
08:000.9%6.6%
09:003.3%6.3%
10:0010.2%6.2%
11:0011.1%6.7%
12:0012.9%6.8%
13:0013.5%6.4%
14:0010.5%6.5%
15:008.7%6.4%
16:0012.2%6.5%
17:007.9%6.6%
18:004.1%7.1%
19:002.8%7.3%
20:000.7%6.1%
21:000.4%3.8%
22:000.2%1.5%
23:000%0.4%

Posts a day by weekday

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Posts a day by Carlow Nationalist on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayCarlow NationalistMedian of its peers
Monday5.929.93
Tuesday6.179.63
Wednesday6.6710.2
Thursday5.510.3
Friday5.7510.1
Saturday4.427.75
Sunday3.837.88

What it posted

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Share of each format among posts by Carlow Nationalist, and the median across its peers.
FormatCarlow NationalistIts peers, median
Photo2%19%
Video or reel0%3%
Album0%0%
Link96%78%
Text only1%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.
  • Carlow Nationalist, 18:00 to midnight: 8%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 26%
  • On a weekend day, Carlow Nationalist posted 69% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 76%.

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.

Carlow Nationalist's peers are 156 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Europe with 10k to 100k followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 156 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 156 peers, A to Z

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