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    Engagement Highest On Mondays And Evenings According To A New Analysis

    by Jason Alcorn
    May 30, 2017
    Photo by Negative Space on Pexels.com and used with Creative Commons license.

    Web analytics firm KYA runs software that is used by more than 500 publisher sites. They recently analyzed how users engage with digital news content on those sites, based on a six-month sample of 15 million unique visitors across 530 sites in their network. The data is interesting in that it shows some real, if small, differences in how users consume news. For publishers, it’s a snapshot of how — and when — to publish content when your goal is maximum engagement.

    Here are six of the key findings from KYA’s analysis.

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    Engagement is highest at the beginning of the week

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    Page scroll is a consistent 50 percent

    Users spend less time reading on weekends, barely

    And less time clicking on weekends (phew!)

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    Users are most click-happy in the evening

    Which means overall engagement is highest in the evening

    Bonus insights

    1. Total page views are highest on mobile devices.
    2. Facebook is the top referrer overall to publishers.
    3. Total engagement is four points higher on desktop than on mobile.
    4. Friday has the fewest pageviews of any day of the week.

    A spreadsheet with the full analysis is available here.

    Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift. In addition to his work with MediaShift, he works as a consultant with non-profits and newsrooms

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