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The posting benchmark

The Courier-Journal on Facebook, beside its peers

How The Courier-Journal's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 85 peers: news publishers in the United States with 100k to 1m followers.

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

Within United States

The Courier-Journal: 35.8 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 9.2 more a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day42nd/86Photos and video28th/86Evening posts9th/23Weekend day17th/23
Engagement per post45th/86Engagement a day39th/86Per 1,000 followers56th/86Comments per post47th/86Comments a day45th/86

The Courier-Journal, United States

42ndof 86

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

The Courier-Journal posted 35.8 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 85 peers: 34.2.

Peers: 85 news publishers in the United States with 100k to 1m followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

The Courier-Journal's 85 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

The Courier-Journal beside 85 peers

The Courier-Journal 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 day35.842nd of 8634.2
Photos and video82%28th of 8664%
Evening posts27%9th of 2324%
Weekend day59%17th of 2371.8%
Engagement per post1145th of 8613
Engagement a day4,66039th of 864,079
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.03856th of 860.052
Comments per post3247th of 8633
Comments a day1,13345th of 861,185

What it would take

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

The Courier-Journal posts at or above the median of its peers: 35.8 a day, against their 34.2.

In posts, measure by measure

  • Weekend day

    A weekend day: 58.6% of a weekday's posts; the median of its peers 71.8%

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

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

The Courier-Journal's posts drew 1,133 comments a day. The median of its peers: 1,185.

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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 The Courier-Journal posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 85 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • The Courier-Journal
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayThe Courier-JournalMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June3332
Tuesday 30 June3634
Wednesday 1 July3837
Thursday 2 July3935
Friday 3 July3932
Saturday 4 July1828
Sunday 5 July1124
Monday 6 July3231
Tuesday 7 July4036
Wednesday 8 July4438
Thursday 9 July4239
Friday 10 July3938
Saturday 11 July3830
Sunday 12 July2026
Monday 13 July3532
Tuesday 14 July3637
Wednesday 15 July4039
Thursday 16 July4238
Friday 17 July3837
Saturday 18 July3931
Sunday 19 July2125
Monday 20 July3131
Tuesday 21 July3935
Wednesday 22 July4338
Thursday 23 July4137
Friday 24 July3937
Saturday 25 July3730
Sunday 26 July1524
Monday 27 July2932
Tuesday 28 July4139
Wednesday 29 July4037
Thursday 30 July4037
Friday 31 July3837
Saturday 1 August3729
Sunday 2 August2423
Monday 3 August3231
Tuesday 4 August4238
Wednesday 5 August4037
Thursday 6 August4636
Friday 7 August3637
Saturday 8 August3629
Sunday 9 August1523
Monday 10 August3132
Tuesday 11 August4037
Wednesday 12 August3937
Thursday 13 August4138
Friday 14 August3938
Saturday 15 August3028
Sunday 16 August1524
Monday 17 August3234
Tuesday 18 August3837
Wednesday 19 August4041
Thursday 20 August4338
Friday 21 August4538
Saturday 22 August3832
Sunday 23 August1424
Monday 24 August3233
Tuesday 25 August4137
Wednesday 26 August4238
Thursday 27 August4337
Friday 28 August4338
Saturday 29 August3332
Sunday 30 August1627
Monday 31 August3635
Tuesday 1 September4738
Wednesday 2 September4241
Thursday 3 September4439
Friday 4 September4337
Saturday 5 September3630
Sunday 6 September2227
Monday 7 September2325
Tuesday 8 September3333
Wednesday 9 September4338
Thursday 10 September4440
Friday 11 September4338
Saturday 12 September3630
Sunday 13 September1226
Monday 14 September3133
Tuesday 15 September4941
Wednesday 16 September4239
Thursday 17 September5039
Friday 18 September4839
Saturday 19 September5131
Sunday 20 September3529

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by The Courier-Journal in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourThe Courier-JournalMedian of its peers
00:000%1%
01:001.6%1.4%
02:000%0.5%
03:001.1%1.7%
04:000%0.6%
05:005.6%4.2%
06:005.5%5.1%
07:005.4%5.2%
08:005.4%5.4%
09:005.4%5.7%
10:005.9%5.6%
11:004.2%5.8%
12:005.3%4.8%
13:006.4%6%
14:005.2%5.6%
15:005.9%5.7%
16:005.2%5.5%
17:005.2%5.6%
18:005.4%5.3%
19:005%5%
20:004.8%4.6%
21:005.2%4.2%
22:004.2%3.4%
23:002.1%2.1%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by The Courier-Journal on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayThe Courier-JournalMedian of its peers
Monday36.834.5
Tuesday4136.7
Wednesday41.137.1
Thursday43.437.1
Friday40.636.8
Saturday32.528.4
Sunday15.125.9

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by The Courier-Journal, and the median across its peers.
FormatThe Courier-JournalIts peers, median
Photo71%60%
Video or reel10%4%
Album1%0%
Link18%36%
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.
  • The Courier-Journal, 18:00 to midnight: 27%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 24%
  • On a weekend day, The Courier-Journal posted 59% 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.

The Courier-Journal's peers are 85 news publishers in the United States with 100k to 1m followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 85 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 85 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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