Here’s one really interesting trend I dug from the stats log Pinoy Top Blogs — an hourly trend of internet traffic for blogs. Although, I’m only basing these figures from the said site which tracks close to 3,000 Filipino blogs, I’m sure we can derive something useful from this.
Here are the numbers and the charts:
Highest traffic for a given month was March 2007 at 8,499,495 page views from 1,464,829 unique visitors. The month with the highest number of unique visitors was May at 1,538,765 but it generated less page views (8,026,274) than March. Remember, these pageviews and visits are the aggregate number for all those who are using the tracking button (approved, pending, and suspended). This also includes traffic directly generated by the site but that is negligible considering the Pinoy Top Blogs site barely hit 1,000 pageviews a day.
The traffic was also plotted on an hourly basis and this is how it looks like:
Based on the graph, you can see that blog traffic tops at 11AM (just before lunch), dips at 12 noon (lunch break) and goes back between 1PM to 2PM. This might indicate blog reading habits peaks and hour before and after lunch (probably mostly due office workers accessing blogs from work?).
On the other hand, the lowest traffic hours are between 4 to 6 AM.
In any case, this chart tells us to publish our posts just before noon to take advantage of the traffic trends.
someone did not get the idea if you post at 12 midnight.
i think the best time is before lunch.