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Isolezwe lesiXhosa on Facebook, beside its peers

How Isolezwe lesiXhosa's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 12 peers: news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in South Africa with 200k to 2m followers.

Country
South Africa
Region
Africa
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
100k to 1m

Within South Africa

Isolezwe lesiXhosa: 16 a day

Median in South Africa: 18.3 a day

That is 2.3 fewer a day than the median in South Africa.

Place the dots by

Posts a day7th/13Photos and video4th/13Evening posts3rd/13Weekend day3rd/13
Engagement per post6th/13Engagement a day8th/13Per 1,000 followers8th/13Comments per post5th/13Comments a day5th/13

Isolezwe lesiXhosa, South Africa

7thof 13

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Isolezwe lesiXhosa posted 16 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 12 peers: 16.

Peers: 12 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in South Africa with 200k to 2m followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

Isolezwe lesiXhosa's 12 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 lesiXhosa beside 12 peers

Isolezwe lesiXhosa 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 day167th of 1316
Photos and video54%4th of 1341%
Evening posts30%3rd of 1322%
Weekend day99%3rd of 1348%
Engagement per post436th of 1328
Engagement a day2,8838th of 133,762
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.0748th of 130.10
Comments per post445th of 1341
Comments a day7045th of 13629

What it would take

At or above the median of its peers on posts a day

Isolezwe lesiXhosa posts at or above the median of its peers: 16 a day, against their 16.

In posts, measure by measure

  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day, 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

Isolezwe lesiXhosa's posts drew 704 comments a day, 1.1 times the median of its peers.

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Head to head

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Day by day

How Isolezwe lesiXhosa posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 12 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Isolezwe lesiXhosa
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Isolezwe lesiXhosa, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayIsolezwe lesiXhosaMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June717
Tuesday 30 June1821.5
Wednesday 1 July1121
Thursday 2 July1617
Friday 3 July1721.5
Saturday 4 July175.5
Sunday 5 July1411.5
Monday 6 July1416.5
Tuesday 7 July1418
Wednesday 8 July1816.5
Thursday 9 July2117.5
Friday 10 July2315.5
Saturday 11 July195
Sunday 12 July2314
Monday 13 July1416.5
Tuesday 14 July1616
Wednesday 15 July1415.5
Thursday 16 July1616.5
Friday 17 July1616.5
Saturday 18 July159
Sunday 19 July1512
Monday 20 July1517
Tuesday 21 July816.5
Wednesday 22 July1317
Thursday 23 July1919
Friday 24 July1517
Saturday 25 July1211
Sunday 26 July1412
Monday 27 July1614
Tuesday 28 July1417.5
Wednesday 29 July1717
Thursday 30 July1818
Friday 31 July2019.5
Saturday 1 August203
Sunday 2 August1011.5
Monday 3 August1818.5
Tuesday 4 August1915.5
Wednesday 5 August517
Thursday 6 August1622
Friday 7 August924.5
Saturday 8 August1811
Sunday 9 August1511.5
Monday 10 August1314
Tuesday 11 August1518.5
Wednesday 12 August1619.5
Thursday 13 August2021.5
Friday 14 August2023.5
Saturday 15 August1910
Sunday 16 August1714
Monday 17 August1717.5
Tuesday 18 August717
Wednesday 19 August1823.5
Thursday 20 August1919.5
Friday 21 August1720.5
Saturday 22 August108
Sunday 23 August1212
Monday 24 August1322
Tuesday 25 August1921
Wednesday 26 August1422
Thursday 27 August1821
Friday 28 August1620
Saturday 29 August1510
Sunday 30 August1413.5
Monday 31 August1417.5
Tuesday 1 September1421.5
Wednesday 2 September1521
Thursday 3 September1921
Friday 4 September2020
Saturday 5 September219
Sunday 6 September1513
Monday 7 September1822.5
Tuesday 8 September1520.5
Wednesday 9 September1920
Thursday 10 September2320.5
Friday 11 September2218.5
Saturday 12 September227.5
Sunday 13 September1313.5
Monday 14 September1618.5
Tuesday 15 September1221
Wednesday 16 September1324.5
Thursday 17 September2223.5
Friday 18 September2216
Saturday 19 September1810
Sunday 20 September1515.5

Share of posts by local hour

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Share of posts by Isolezwe lesiXhosa in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourIsolezwe lesiXhosaMedian of its peers
00:000.8%0.1%
01:000.4%0%
02:000.1%0%
03:000.1%0%
04:000.1%0%
05:000.5%0.6%
06:001.9%6%
07:005.1%7%
08:006.1%4.4%
09:004.8%7.7%
10:004.6%7.2%
11:005.7%5.7%
12:005.9%7.7%
13:004.7%6.3%
14:006.7%9%
15:006.7%6.2%
16:006.5%5.6%
17:009%4.7%
18:0010.6%5.7%
19:005.3%6.2%
20:006.6%4%
21:004.5%3.4%
22:002.5%2.4%
23:000.8%0.1%

Posts a day by weekday

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Posts a day by Isolezwe lesiXhosa on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayIsolezwe lesiXhosaMedian of its peers
Monday14.818.1
Tuesday1418.4
Wednesday14.719.6
Thursday18.818.2
Friday18.118.6
Saturday16.89.14
Sunday1512.4

What it posted

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Share of each format among posts by Isolezwe lesiXhosa, and the median across its peers.
FormatIsolezwe lesiXhosaIts peers, median
Photo36.9%29%
Video or reel8%8%
Album9%1%
Link46%62%
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 lesiXhosa, 18:00 to midnight: 30%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 22%
  • On a weekend day, Isolezwe lesiXhosa posted 99% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 48%.

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 lesiXhosa's peers are 12 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in South Africa with 200k to 2m followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 12 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 12 peers, A to Z

Each has a page of its own, beside its own peers. Each news brand's rank is among its own peers only. Being counted says nothing about which tools a newsroom uses.

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