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The posting benchmark

The Philadelphia Inquirer on Facebook, beside its peers

How The Philadelphia Inquirer's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 66 peers: news publishers in the United States with 200k to 2m followers.

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

Within United States

The Philadelphia Inquirer: 41.1 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 14.5 more a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day25th/67Photos and video59th/67Evening postsWeekend day
Engagement per post35th/67Engagement a day29th/67Per 1,000 followers47th/67Comments per post36th/67Comments a day36th/67

The Philadelphia Inquirer, United States

25thof 67

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

The Philadelphia Inquirer posted 41.1 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 66 peers: 37.1.

Its first gap: photos and video

87 more of its posts a week as photos or video would reach its peers' median. What it would take

Peers: 66 news publishers in the United States with 200k to 2m followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

The Philadelphia Inquirer's 66 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 Philadelphia Inquirer beside 66 peers

The Philadelphia Inquirer 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 day41.125th of 6737.1
Photos and video40%59th of 6770%
Evening postsNot countedNo rank24%
Weekend dayNot countedNo rank59%
Engagement per post1435th of 6716
Engagement a day8,23929th of 676,641
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.02847th of 670.049
Comments per post4036th of 6746
Comments a day1,62836th of 671,710

What it would take

What would reaching the median of its peers take?

The Philadelphia Inquirer's posts a day are at or above the median of its peers, so this starts with photos and video, where it sits furthest below them.

87more posts a week

as photos or video, of its 288 a week: 115 now, 202 at the median of its peers

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

Its 288 posts a week: photos and video now, and at the median of its peers

  • Photos and video now
  • The rest of the way to the median
  • Its other posts

The other measures, in posts

  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day.
  • No local-time figure for 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

The Philadelphia Inquirer's posts drew 1,628 comments a day. The median of its peers: 1,710.

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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

Put it beside up to three news brands

Add a news brand from anywhere in the comparison, or one of its peers, and every figure lines up beside The Philadelphia Inquirer's.

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Or one of its peers in its own country

Day by day

How The Philadelphia Inquirer posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 66 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by The Philadelphia Inquirer, 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 Philadelphia InquirerMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June4134.5
Tuesday 30 June4137
Wednesday 1 July4738
Thursday 2 July6338.5
Friday 3 July4739
Saturday 4 July3630.5
Sunday 5 July3228
Monday 6 July4133.5
Tuesday 7 July5639
Wednesday 8 July4940
Thursday 9 July4341
Friday 10 July4040
Saturday 11 July5134
Sunday 12 July3427.5
Monday 13 July4535
Tuesday 14 July4439
Wednesday 15 July4342
Thursday 16 July5941
Friday 17 July5240
Saturday 18 July3734
Sunday 19 July2530.5
Monday 20 July3034.5
Tuesday 21 July3738.5
Wednesday 22 July4541
Thursday 23 July3740.5
Friday 24 July3439
Saturday 25 July3734.5
Sunday 26 July2927
Monday 27 July3834.5
Tuesday 28 July4441
Wednesday 29 July5640
Thursday 30 July5239.5
Friday 31 July3639
Saturday 1 August3933
Sunday 2 August2024.5
Monday 3 August3233.5
Tuesday 4 August4939
Wednesday 5 August5540
Thursday 6 August5240
Friday 7 August3738
Saturday 8 August4333.5
Sunday 9 August2225
Monday 10 August3633.5
Tuesday 11 August4840
Wednesday 12 August3241
Thursday 13 August3540
Friday 14 August5241
Saturday 15 August3632.5
Sunday 16 August3125.5
Monday 17 August4035.5
Tuesday 18 August3642
Wednesday 19 August4943
Thursday 20 August4743
Friday 21 August4643
Saturday 22 August3233
Sunday 23 August2628
Monday 24 August3336.5
Tuesday 25 August4942.5
Wednesday 26 August5943.5
Thursday 27 August4540
Friday 28 August5041.5
Saturday 29 August3234
Sunday 30 August3528
Monday 31 August4438.5
Tuesday 1 September3343
Wednesday 2 September5845
Thursday 3 September5542.5
Friday 4 September3842.5
Saturday 5 September3435
Sunday 6 September3229
Monday 7 September1531.5
Tuesday 8 September3536
Wednesday 9 September4742.5
Thursday 10 September5344
Friday 11 September4042
Saturday 12 September3236
Sunday 13 September3128.5
Monday 14 September5037
Tuesday 15 September5245
Wednesday 16 September5045
Thursday 17 September4943
Friday 18 September3943.5
Saturday 19 September3235.5
Sunday 20 September3633

Its local time zone is unknown, so its hours and weekdays aren't shown.

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the median across its peers.
FormatThe Philadelphia InquirerIts peers, median
Photo36%65%
Video or reel4%5%
Album0%0%
Link60%30%
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.
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 24%

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 Philadelphia Inquirer's peers are 66 news publishers in the United States 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 66 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 66 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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