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The posting benchmark

The Providence Journal on Facebook, beside its peers

How The Providence Journal's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 106 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 Providence Journal: 35.9 a day

Median in United States: at least 26.6 a day

That is 9.3 more a day than the median in United States.

Place the dots by

Posts a day40th/107Photos and video55th/107Evening postsWeekend day
Engagement per post80th/107Engagement a day49th/107Per 1,000 followers75th/107Comments per post59th/107Comments a day54th/107

The Providence Journal, United States

40thof 107

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

The Providence Journal posted 35.9 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 106 peers: 30.8.

Peers: 106 news publishers in the United States with 50k to 500k followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

The Providence Journal's 106 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 Providence Journal beside 106 peers

The Providence 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 day35.940th of 10730.8
Photos and video59%55th of 10760%
Evening postsNot countedNo rank25%
Weekend dayNot countedNo rank74%
Engagement per post580th of 1079.8
Engagement a day3,27649th of 1072,953
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.03375th of 1070.053
Comments per post2159th of 10725
Comments a day74154th of 107706

What it would take

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

The Providence Journal posts at or above the median of its peers: 35.9 a day, against their 30.8.

In posts, measure by measure

  • Photos and video

    59.2% of its posts; the median of its peers 60.0%

    2 more of its 251 posts a week as photos or video: 149 now, 151 at the median
  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day.
  • No local-time figure for evening posts 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.

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 Providence Journal's posts drew 741 comments a day. The median of its peers: 706.

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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 Providence Journal posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 106 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • The Providence Journal
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by The Providence 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 Providence JournalMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June3225.5
Tuesday 30 June3527
Wednesday 1 July3631
Thursday 2 July3730
Friday 3 July4127
Saturday 4 July3621
Sunday 5 July2520
Monday 6 July3126
Tuesday 7 July3729
Wednesday 8 July3929
Thursday 9 July3730.5
Friday 10 July3928
Saturday 11 July3923
Sunday 12 July2523.5
Monday 13 July3128
Tuesday 14 July3829.5
Wednesday 15 July3931
Thursday 16 July3732.5
Friday 17 July3729.5
Saturday 18 July3923
Sunday 19 July3422
Monday 20 July3126
Tuesday 21 July3629.5
Wednesday 22 July3931
Thursday 23 July3831
Friday 24 July3930
Saturday 25 July3925
Sunday 26 July2321.5
Monday 27 July2927.5
Tuesday 28 July3932.5
Wednesday 29 July3732.5
Thursday 30 July3735
Friday 31 July3729.5
Saturday 1 August3626
Sunday 2 August2121
Monday 3 August2928
Tuesday 4 August3835
Wednesday 5 August3634
Thursday 6 August3932.5
Friday 7 August3634.5
Saturday 8 August3925.5
Sunday 9 August1822
Monday 10 August2629
Tuesday 11 August3832
Wednesday 12 August3833
Thursday 13 August3933
Friday 14 August4233.5
Saturday 15 August3327
Sunday 16 August2021
Monday 17 August3130
Tuesday 18 August3731.5
Wednesday 19 August3836.5
Thursday 20 August3933
Friday 21 August3931.5
Saturday 22 August4229
Sunday 23 August2921
Monday 24 August3430
Tuesday 25 August3831
Wednesday 26 August4232.5
Thursday 27 August3733.5
Friday 28 August3836
Saturday 29 August4129
Sunday 30 August2224
Monday 31 August3529
Tuesday 1 September4133
Wednesday 2 September4335
Thursday 3 September4331.5
Friday 4 September3833.5
Saturday 5 September3927
Sunday 6 September2923
Monday 7 September2221
Tuesday 8 September3428
Wednesday 9 September4436
Thursday 10 September5137
Friday 11 September3933.5
Saturday 12 September4328
Sunday 13 September2622
Monday 14 September3529
Tuesday 15 September4136
Wednesday 16 September4036
Thursday 17 September4335
Friday 18 September4234
Saturday 19 September4629.5
Sunday 20 September4027.5

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 Providence Journal, and the median across its peers.
FormatThe Providence JournalIts peers, median
Photo50%56%
Video or reel9%3%
Album0%0%
Link41%41%
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: 25%

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 Providence Journal's peers are 106 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 106 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 106 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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