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The posting benchmark

Journal-News on Facebook, beside its peers

How Journal-News's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 105 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

Journal-News: 12.5 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 14.1 fewer a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day96th/106Photos and video92nd/106Evening posts31st/33Weekend day24th/33
Engagement per post64th/106Engagement a day91st/106Per 1,000 followers48th/106Comments per post87th/106Comments a day91st/106

Journal-News, United States

96thof 106

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Journal-News posted 12.5 times a day to Facebook, 62% less than the median of 105 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

Its first gap: posts a day

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

See all nine measures

Journal-News's 105 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

Journal-News beside 105 peers

Journal-News 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 day12.596th of 10632.8
Photos and video6%92nd of 10660%
Evening posts15%31st of 3325%
Weekend day60%24th of 3374%
Engagement per post764th of 1069.5
Engagement a day59191st of 1063,000
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.05748th of 1060.052
Comments per post9.887th of 10625
Comments a day12391st of 106748

What it would take

What would reaching the median of its peers take?

20.3more posts a day

143 a week, to reach the median of its peers: 32.8 a day, against 12.5 now

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

The other measures, in posts

  • Photos and video

    6% of its posts; the median of its peers 60%

    47 more of its 88 posts a week as photos or video: 6 now, 53 at the median
  • Evening posts

    18:00 to midnight: 15% of its posts; the median of its peers 25%

    9 more of its 88 posts a week between 18:00 and midnight: 13 now, 22 at the median
  • Weekend day

    A weekend day: 60% of a weekday's posts; the median of its peers 74%

    4 more posts a weekend: 2 on Saturday and 2 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.

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

Journal-News's Facebook posts drew 123 comments a day, 84% less than the median of 105 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.

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.

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 Journal-News posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 105 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Journal-News
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Journal-News, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayJournal-NewsMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June827
Tuesday 30 June1529
Wednesday 1 July1333
Thursday 2 July1731
Friday 3 July829
Saturday 4 July922
Sunday 5 July920
Monday 6 July1127
Tuesday 7 July1431
Wednesday 8 July1231
Thursday 9 July1332
Friday 10 July1529
Saturday 11 July925
Sunday 12 July824
Monday 13 July1229
Tuesday 14 July1431
Wednesday 15 July1134
Thursday 16 July1233
Friday 17 July1232
Saturday 18 July924
Sunday 19 July623
Monday 20 July1328
Tuesday 21 July1431
Wednesday 22 July1432
Thursday 23 July1535
Friday 24 July1132
Saturday 25 July826
Sunday 26 July722
Monday 27 July1328
Tuesday 28 July1434
Wednesday 29 July1834
Thursday 30 July1836
Friday 31 July1233
Saturday 1 August1026
Sunday 2 August921
Monday 3 August1829
Tuesday 4 August2236
Wednesday 5 August1336
Thursday 6 August1734
Friday 7 August1536
Saturday 8 August926
Sunday 9 August922
Monday 10 August1230
Tuesday 11 August1633
Wednesday 12 August1835
Thursday 13 August1734
Friday 14 August1236
Saturday 15 August827
Sunday 16 August821
Monday 17 August1031
Tuesday 18 August1432
Wednesday 19 August1437
Thursday 20 August1436
Friday 21 August2134
Saturday 22 August730
Sunday 23 August921
Monday 24 August1330
Tuesday 25 August1034
Wednesday 26 August1733
Thursday 27 August1235
Friday 28 August1436
Saturday 29 August1229
Sunday 30 August1123
Monday 31 August1130
Tuesday 1 September1434
Wednesday 2 September1136
Thursday 3 September1934
Friday 4 September1436
Saturday 5 September1129
Sunday 6 September824
Monday 7 September721
Tuesday 8 September1029
Wednesday 9 September1336
Thursday 10 September1438
Friday 11 September2335
Saturday 12 September828
Sunday 13 September823
Monday 14 September2229
Tuesday 15 September1738
Wednesday 16 September1537
Thursday 17 September1235
Friday 18 September1635
Saturday 19 September730
Sunday 20 September928

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by Journal-News in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourJournal-NewsMedian of its peers
00:000%1.3%
01:000%1.3%
02:000%0.5%
03:000%0.9%
04:000%0.3%
05:000%4.5%
06:001.9%5.2%
07:003.6%5.2%
08:007.3%5.4%
09:007.5%5.7%
10:008%5.6%
11:008.8%5.7%
12:008.7%4.8%
13:009.3%6%
14:007.9%5.6%
15:008.2%5.6%
16:007.4%5.4%
17:006.4%5.4%
18:005.2%5.2%
19:004.5%5%
20:004.4%4.7%
21:000.6%4.5%
22:000.3%4%
23:000%2.2%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by Journal-News on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayJournal-NewsMedian of its peers
Monday12.630.9
Tuesday14.530.9
Wednesday14.633.3
Thursday14.731.4
Friday14.433
Saturday8.526.4
Sunday8.5821.5

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by Journal-News, and the median across its peers.
FormatJournal-NewsIts peers, median
Photo3%56%
Video or reel3%3%
Album1%0%
Link93%40%
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.
  • Journal-News, 18:00 to midnight: 15%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 25%
  • On a weekend day, Journal-News posted 60% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 74%.

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.

Journal-News's peers are 105 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 105 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 105 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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Every news brand, A to Z

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