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Medea
Medea

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Best time to post?

When is the best time to post on dev.to to attract the most viewers?

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Aljosha Papsch

It depends on your intended audience. If it's European, I'd recommend between 12 - 13:00 CEST/CET, that's most likely the time I do lunch break. If you want to reach Americans, you should post at 0300 Pacific Time in the morning, because that's coincidentally again my lunch break in American (must be an Imperial conversion issue).

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Medea

Thanks, I’ll try that out!

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Chris Jarvis

Being international I don't know if there is a specific time to post that would get more traffic. How ever one tip I learned was to not schedule post on the exact hour. But a few minutes later. The theory is most people start the day on a certain hour. Their mailbox will be filled and they are reading those email and alerts. So yours will be mixed in. But if you post off the hour they will get an alert then and see the alert as it happens and not buried in the mail.
You can use the stats on a post to see if you have better traffic on a certain day of the week.

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Medea

I’ll try that out, thanks!