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The posting benchmark

The Press Democrat on Facebook, beside its peers

How The Press Democrat's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 107 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

The Press Democrat: 47.5 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 20.9 more a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day13th/108Photos and video8th/108Evening posts19th/33Weekend day5th/33
Engagement per post12th/108Engagement a day15th/108Per 1,000 followers14th/108Comments per post19th/108Comments a day10th/108

The Press Democrat, United States

13thof 108

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

The Press Democrat posted 47.5 times a day to Facebook, 51% more than the median of 107 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

The comments its posts draw

2,366 comments a day, 3.2 times the median of its peers. What it would take

See all nine measures

The Press Democrat's 107 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 Press Democrat beside 107 peers

The Press Democrat 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 day47.513th of 10831.5
Photos and video99%8th of 10859%
Evening posts24%19th of 3325%
Weekend day96%5th of 3371.8%
Engagement per post3312th of 1089.5
Engagement a day8,51515th of 1082,956
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.1614th of 1080.052
Comments per post5019th of 10824
Comments a day2,36610th of 108741

The comments

The comments its posts draw

2,366comments a day

on its Facebook posts, 3.2 times the median of its peers (741)

Spread evenly over 24 hours, that is 99 an hour, about 2 a minute.

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

Comments a day: The Press Democrat beside its 107 peers

  • The Press Democrat: 2,366 a day
  • Median of its peers: 741
  • 90th percentile of its peers: 2,053
  • Middle half of its peers: 258 to 1,436
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

  • Evening posts

    18:00 to midnight: 24% of its posts; the median of its peers 25%

    3 more of its 333 posts a week between 18:00 and midnight: 80 now, 83 at the median
  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day, photos and video 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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Day by day

How The Press Democrat posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 107 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • The Press Democrat
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by The Press Democrat, 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 Press DemocratMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June3526
Tuesday 30 June4927
Wednesday 1 July4831
Thursday 2 July4730
Friday 3 July4827
Saturday 4 July4521
Sunday 5 July4820
Monday 6 July4626
Tuesday 7 July4929
Wednesday 8 July4830
Thursday 9 July4731
Friday 10 July4828
Saturday 11 July4723
Sunday 12 July4824
Monday 13 July4828
Tuesday 14 July5030
Wednesday 15 July4731
Thursday 16 July5033
Friday 17 July4930
Saturday 18 July4823
Sunday 19 July4822
Monday 20 July4526
Tuesday 21 July4830
Wednesday 22 July4931
Thursday 23 July5031
Friday 24 July4931
Saturday 25 July4825
Sunday 26 July4822
Monday 27 July3728
Tuesday 28 July5033
Wednesday 29 July4933
Thursday 30 July5135
Friday 31 July5130
Saturday 1 August4826
Sunday 2 August5221
Monday 3 August4428
Tuesday 4 August4835
Wednesday 5 August4834
Thursday 6 August5133
Friday 7 August4935
Saturday 8 August4825
Sunday 9 August3721
Monday 10 August3129
Tuesday 11 August4732
Wednesday 12 August4834
Thursday 13 August5033
Friday 14 August4834
Saturday 15 August5027
Sunday 16 August4821
Monday 17 August3830
Tuesday 18 August4932
Wednesday 19 August4937
Thursday 20 August4733
Friday 21 August5132
Saturday 22 August4829
Sunday 23 August5021
Monday 24 August4430
Tuesday 25 August4831
Wednesday 26 August5133
Thursday 27 August5134
Friday 28 August4836
Saturday 29 August4929
Sunday 30 August4622
Monday 31 August4230
Tuesday 1 September4633
Wednesday 2 September4935
Thursday 3 September4832
Friday 4 September4934
Saturday 5 September4727
Sunday 6 September4823
Monday 7 September4721
Tuesday 8 September4128
Wednesday 9 September4836
Thursday 10 September5037
Friday 11 September5234
Saturday 12 September4728
Sunday 13 September4822
Monday 14 September4929
Tuesday 15 September4836
Wednesday 16 September5036
Thursday 17 September4935
Friday 18 September4834
Saturday 19 September5129
Sunday 20 September4827

Share of posts by local hour

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Share of posts by The Press Democrat in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourThe Press DemocratMedian of its peers
00:004.1%1.2%
01:004.3%1.2%
02:003.9%0.4%
03:003.8%0.7%
04:003.9%0.2%
05:004.1%4.5%
06:004.2%5.2%
07:004.2%5.2%
08:004.5%5.5%
09:004.5%5.7%
10:004.7%5.6%
11:004.2%5.7%
12:004.3%4.9%
13:004.2%6.1%
14:004.2%5.6%
15:004.3%5.7%
16:004.3%5.5%
17:004.3%5.5%
18:004%5.3%
19:004.1%5%
20:004%4.7%
21:004.1%4.5%
22:003.9%3.9%
23:003.9%2.2%

Posts a day by weekday

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Posts a day by The Press Democrat on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayThe Press DemocratMedian of its peers
Monday45.230.4
Tuesday47.930.1
Wednesday49.232
Thursday49.130.7
Friday4930.6
Saturday48.425.1
Sunday43.719.1

What it posted

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Share of each format among posts by The Press Democrat, and the median across its peers.
FormatThe Press DemocratIts peers, median
Photo98%55%
Video or reel1%3%
Album0%0%
Link1%42%
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 Press Democrat, 18:00 to midnight: 24%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 25%
  • On a weekend day, The Press Democrat posted 96% 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 Press Democrat's peers are 107 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 107 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 107 peers, A to Z

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