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The posting benchmark

Isolezwe on Facebook, beside its peers

How Isolezwe's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 13 peers: news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 500k to 5m followers.

Country
South Africa
Region
Africa
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
1m to 10m

Within South Africa

Isolezwe: 24.5 a day

Median in South Africa: 18.3 a day

That is 6.3 more a day than the median in South Africa.

Place the dots by

Posts a day9th/14Photos and video4th/14Evening posts4th/14Weekend day1st/14
Engagement per post1st/14Engagement a day3rd/14Per 1,000 followers1st/14Comments per post1st/14Comments a day2nd/14

Isolezwe, South Africa

9thof 14

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Isolezwe posted 24.5 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 13 peers: 27.9.

The comments its posts draw

4,844 comments a day, 5.3 times the median of its peers. What it would take

Peers: 13 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 500k to 5m followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

Isolezwe's 13 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

Isolezwe beside 13 peers

Isolezwe 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 day24.59th of 1427.9
Photos and video62%4th of 1439%
Evening posts23%4th of 1418%
Weekend day86%1st of 1452%
Engagement per post4861st of 1429
Engagement a day27,8803rd of 147,027
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.281st of 140.011
Comments per post1981st of 1435
Comments a day4,8442nd of 14920

The comments

The comments its posts draw

4,844comments a day

on its Facebook posts, 5.3 times the median of its peers (920)

Spread evenly over 24 hours, that is 202 an hour, about 3 a minute.

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

Comments a day: Isolezwe beside its 13 peers

  • Isolezwe: 4,844 a day
  • Median of its peers: 920
  • 90th percentile of its peers: 4,264
  • Middle half of its peers: 643 to 2,702
Each tick is one of its peers. The scale is logarithmic, so 100 to 1,000 takes the same width as 1,000 to 10,000.

How it posts

  • Posts a day

    24.5 now; the median of its peers 27.9

    3.4 more a day, 24 a week
  • At or above the median of its peers on photos and video, evening posts and a weekend day.

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.

Comments

The comments that come with them

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Posting

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Head to head

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Day by day

How Isolezwe posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 13 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Isolezwe
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Isolezwe, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayIsolezweMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June3341
Tuesday 30 June5549
Wednesday 1 July3425
Thursday 2 July3331
Friday 3 July2325
Saturday 4 July3516
Sunday 5 July279
Monday 6 July2125
Tuesday 7 July3424
Wednesday 8 July2617
Thursday 9 July3425
Friday 10 July1630
Saturday 11 July2814
Sunday 12 July3110
Monday 13 July2024
Tuesday 14 July3117
Wednesday 15 July2929
Thursday 16 July2519
Friday 17 July1330
Saturday 18 July4915
Sunday 19 July2219
Monday 20 July2829
Tuesday 21 July3731
Wednesday 22 July3535
Thursday 23 July2923
Friday 24 July2925
Saturday 25 July2815
Sunday 26 July2411
Monday 27 July3229
Tuesday 28 July2739
Wednesday 29 July3029
Thursday 30 July2535
Friday 31 July1829
Saturday 1 August2520
Sunday 2 August2319
Monday 3 August2731
Tuesday 4 August3741
Wednesday 5 August2730
Thursday 6 August2532
Friday 7 August1939
Saturday 8 August1821
Sunday 9 August1922
Monday 10 August2333
Tuesday 11 August2440
Wednesday 12 August3928
Thursday 13 August2937
Friday 14 August1235
Saturday 15 August2722
Sunday 16 August2424
Monday 17 August2042
Tuesday 18 August2452
Wednesday 19 August2843
Thursday 20 August2142
Friday 21 August2239
Saturday 22 August2115
Sunday 23 August923
Monday 24 August2246
Tuesday 25 August2841
Wednesday 26 August3037
Thursday 27 August2446
Friday 28 August1132
Saturday 29 August1223
Sunday 30 August1720
Monday 31 August1236
Tuesday 1 September2340
Wednesday 2 September1939
Thursday 3 September2032
Friday 4 September1731
Saturday 5 September1015
Sunday 6 September1618
Monday 7 September2446
Tuesday 8 September2439
Wednesday 9 September2236
Thursday 10 September2433
Friday 11 September1928
Saturday 12 September2616
Sunday 13 September1117
Monday 14 September1840
Tuesday 15 September2640
Wednesday 16 September2037
Thursday 17 September3043
Friday 18 September2443
Saturday 19 September1217
Sunday 20 September1224

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by Isolezwe in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourIsolezweMedian of its peers
00:000.3%0.2%
01:000.1%0%
02:000%0%
03:000%0.1%
04:000.1%0.1%
05:000.2%0.4%
06:004.1%1.6%
07:005.8%3.8%
08:007.5%4.7%
09:007.1%6.9%
10:007.1%7.8%
11:007.6%8.2%
12:007.2%8.5%
13:006.5%8.2%
14:006.3%8.1%
15:005.4%8.3%
16:006.6%7.7%
17:005%6.5%
18:005.6%5.1%
19:004.2%4.3%
20:004.4%4.1%
21:005.3%2.3%
22:003.1%2%
23:000.5%1.1%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by Isolezwe on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayIsolezweMedian of its peers
Monday23.535.5
Tuesday30.736.3
Wednesday28.434.2
Thursday26.434.2
Friday18.830.9
Saturday24.215.9
Sunday19.516.2

What it posted

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Share of each format among posts by Isolezwe, and the median across its peers.
FormatIsolezweIts peers, median
Photo31%26%
Video or reel20%8%
Album11%3%
Link38%64%
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.
  • Isolezwe, 18:00 to midnight: 23%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 18%
  • On a weekend day, Isolezwe posted 86% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 52%.

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.

Isolezwe's peers are 13 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 500k to 5m followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 13 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 13 peers, A to Z

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