Best times to post on Facebook for engagement

A lot of research has been published to help social networks pick the golden hours to post and increase engagement. Today's article MONA Media shares what you need to know about best times to post on Facebook so individuals and businesses that sell online can get the most engagement. Building brand awareness and advertising products on Facebook works better when you post at the right golden times.

What is the golden posting time on Facebook?

Posting without waiting for a set time is usually called random posting. Random posting rarely gets the results you want. It is the opposite of researching the market and your audience's Facebook habits before you post.

The golden time on Facebook means studying the market, the habits of Facebook users and your target audience on Facebook, then choosing posting times when your customers are online the most.

Advertising competition on Facebook is very high. To compete, you need to know the golden hours for running Facebook ads. There is no single fixed golden hour on Facebook. It depends on your industry and your customers, so you need to research and find your own golden times.

According to reports, Facebook users are most active in the morning, from Monday to Sunday. The most effective posting window is around 8 a.m. to 12 noon, when people start their day, often opening Facebook on the way to work or during a break to read the news, send birthday wishes and catch up with friends and family.

If you dig deeper into golden posting times on Facebook, you can fine-tune them for your own industry. Each industry has different times for running ads. Do the research and pick the right windows to help your business grow.

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Benefits of posting in the golden time on Facebook

People don't search for these times, called "golden hours", for no reason. From the name alone you can tell that the golden hour is when your target customers are online the most.

Think of it like selling in a market. You look for the busy areas where lots of people pass by, or places where your potential customers gather. Facebook works the same way. Someone is on Facebook at every hour, but each audience has its own busy times.

For example: Office workers on regular hours are usually online around 6 to 8 a.m., from 11 a.m. at lunch, 2 to 3 p.m., and around 8 p.m.

If your customers are office workers, posting at these times will reach many more of them.

In short, choosing a golden posting time on Facebook gives you more than reach:

• It draws in a large share of your target customers
• It increases engagement and encourages more purchases
• Higher brand awareness
• It helps build a habit among social media users at that time of day.

Can you post at other times, outside the golden hours?

Of course! But your content will lose out. Posts at other times are less likely to reach many people in your target audience or to build strong recognition.

If you don't meet your customers at the right time, you miss the chance to get more orders. Isn't that a pity? Why not meet them at the golden times to get better results?

How to find your golden posting times on Facebook

Each industry has its own golden times for posting. To find yours, look at the following factors:

Use a Facebook Page management tool

Today, many Facebook management tools show you when your customers are most active. Facebook Page Insights is one of the key sources of data on demographic and your customers' habits.

The Facebook Page Insights interface

The data in Facebook Page Insights gives you a real chart of when users are active on Facebook. This is the basis for choosing effective golden posting times.

Learn and use Facebook Audience Insights

Facebook Audience Insights (FAI) is a free tool for understanding your audience. Individuals and businesses can use it to see how customers engage and schedule posts accordingly.

Facebook Audience Insights

You can find out where your customers are and how they use Facebook. You can also easily learn more about the people who follow your page.

Measure the results of posting at golden times

The simplest way is to post at different times and then compare the engagement of those posts. The final results will show you which golden times you should post in to increase engagement.

Study your competitors' posting strategy

Competitors in the same market usually share similar customers. Watch and research which golden times your competitors post at, and follow closely whether they get a lot of engagement. You can then use their golden times to post on your own page. If you do, make sure your images and content stand out and are better than theirs.

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The most effective golden posting times on Facebook

Each industry, field and type of Facebook activity has its own golden times. So you need to identify exactly what kind of Facebook channel you run to find the best time to post.

Best times to post on a personal Facebook profile

For posts on a personal profile, if you want a high reach, engagement or conversion rate, you need to know:

• The number of people online on the platform
• The social media habits of your friends, customers, relatives and followers

People under 20 are usually online mostly at night. People aged 30 and over are online more during the lunch break or around 8 to 9 p.m.

MONA Media suggests some golden times for posting effectively on your personal Facebook profile:

• 7 to 8 a.m.: People have just woken up or are getting ready for work. They tend to check their phones and read the morning news. This is a good time for inspiring or motivational posts, and not the time for hard-sell posts.
• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: People on their lunch break often browse Facebook for entertainment while they eat. This is also a good window for sales posts.
• 7 to 10 p.m.: The working or school day is over, so people relax and are online the most all day. Make the most of this window.
• After 10 p.m. until morning: It is late, most people have gone to rest, and only the night owls are left. They are often young people up studying, chasing deadlines, gaming or chatting with friends. You can post relatable, personal posts or sales posts here.

Facebook posting times for fanpages

The Fanpage, the posting times are quite similar to those for personal profiles.

Based on years of research and hands-on work Marketing by our team and expert reviews, the best Facebook posting times for a fanpage are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. These are the golden times when Facebook users are online most often. Posting in these two windows helps your content reach more people and spread further.

Facebook also lets fanpages schedule posts, which makes it easier to prepare your posts ahead of time and get better results.

Posting times for Facebook groups

Groups usually bring together people with the same purpose, ideals or interest in a particular subject. That means you already have a specific audience. All you need to do is work out how they use social media.

Set different time windows depending on who is in the group.

• If most of your group are night owls, post early in the morning or late at night.
• If the group is mostly office workers, aged 30 and over , post early in the morning or in the evening to reach the most people.

Posting when group members are most active improves the reach and engagement of your posts. For the best results, choose your posting times flexibly to suit each group.

Facebook posting times by industry

Besides the channel, you also need to work out golden times by industry. In practice each industry has its own audience, so you need to identify both your direct target customers and your indirect ones. Once you understand each group, you can set posting times for them.

The posting times below for each industry are suggestions compiled by MONA Media for your reference:

• Technology: Wednesday (especially 9 to 11 a.m.) is the golden time. Saturday gets little engagement, so avoid posting that day.
• Fast-moving consumer goods: The golden times are 1 p.m. on Wednesday and 11 a.m. on Friday. Saturday gets little engagement, so post less that day.
• Media: The days with the most engagement are Wednesday (golden hours at 3, 4 and 5 p.m.) and Friday morning (8 to 9 a.m.).
• Education: The most effective posting times are 9 a.m. on Wednesday and and 5 a.m. on Sunday. In addition, the window from Wednesday to Friday usually sees the highest engagement.
• Healthcare: The golden time is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Saturday gets little engagement, so avoid posting then.
• Non-profit: The golden times are 8 to 9 a.m. on Wednesday and Friday.
• Restaurants: The golden window is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays, especially Tuesday and Wednesday.
• Travel: The days with the highest engagement are Tuesday to Thursday, with golden hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Besides the suggestions above, keep observing and testing to find the best Facebook posting times for your industry and target audience. These times can shift as user behavior changes and around special occasions such as holidays and Tet. So do your own research to find the most accurate times.

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How to post for the best engagement

Posting a lot does not necessarily work. What matters is posting the right way at the right time. On Facebook, each post has only a few short hours to "score" with viewers, so how you post, from timing to content to presentation, decides how much engagement you get. Here are some tips to help you post more smartly, so your posts reach more people and perform better.

The content of your Facebook posts

The content of a post decides whether a Facebook advertising strategy succeeds. Even if you post at a golden time, people will scroll past poor images and weak content without noticing.

Getting big engagement and more clicks to your landing pages from fanpage posts is not simple. It is very different from writing a status update on your personal profile.

Posts that generate orders need to be strongly commercial and persuasive enough to push customers to act. Without deep marketing knowledge, it is hard to write posts that actually turn a profit.

How your industry affects posting times

Each field has different best times to post on Facebook. For example:

• For printing, the best posting times are 7 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 p.m. on Thursday and 2 p.m. on Saturday.
• For restaurants, the golden Facebook posting times are: 1 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. on Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
• For fashion, the golden Facebook posting times are Tuesday at 4 p.m.. Thursday in the afternoonu. Friday at 9 p.m. and Saturday around 5 to 6 p.m..
• For entertainment, music and film, good golden Facebook posting times are Friday at 2 p.m.. Or on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.. If you post on Wednesday, pick 3 p.m.. If you post on Monday, pick 11 a.m..

These golden Facebook posting times were compiled by a team that studies customers and the Facebook market. Look into them carefully and choose the times that best fit your own line of business.

Reply to every customer comment

One of the most important things after posting is engagement. To get more people to see your post, reply to every comment from customers. Give a quote, thank them for a review, and do whatever you can to engage with customers quickly and well.

Posts should also include at least two images to improve reach. Design images that fit Facebook's display sizes. And put real effort into the content and wording, so customers find your posts interesting and enjoyable to read.

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How to plan your Facebook posts effectively

To find effective golden posting times on Facebook, you can follow the steps below.

Step 1: Research your target audience

Digging into your target audience helps you understand consumers' needs, interests and behavior, so you can build the right content and choose the right posting times.

For example:

• Audience aged 18 to 25: when are they online the most?
• If they are office workers, when are they online, and what do they do at each time of day?
• If they are freelancers, when will they read your content?

Step 2: Test posting at different times and measure the results

The best approach is to run tests.

Post at different times and with different types of content, and you will see which audiences care at which times.

That gives you the most accurate picture and helps you find the posting times that fit.

Step 3: Use Facebook Audience Insights

Facebook Audience Insights is a great tool (we mentioned it above). You can use it to plan, locate your customers and optimize your ad campaigns.

Besides helping you split up posts and schedule them at the right times, FAI also gives you a clearer view of the demographics, interests, habits and behavior of your target audience on Facebook.

Step 4: Analyze your competitors

Another important step when posting on Facebook is to analyze and understand your competitors.

Find out how your competitors run Facebook: what they post, at what times, and how well it works.

This also shows you when your target audience is most active and which post types work best at each time, and lets you review your own approach to find the right direction.

For an expert running a fanpage under their own name, the hardest thing to sustain is posting at the right time every day, more than finding the time itself. The CEO MONA channel posts short videos to its fanpage at 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., and both slots are scheduled automatically by the assistant inside the app. How the app watches over a fanpage, posts Reels consistently and blocks trolls is covered on our page on building a Facebook channel for experts.

Golden posting times on other social networks

For an overall view of golden posting times across social media, HubSpot's State of Social Media Trends has some data. By the end of 2022 there were more than half a billion social media users worldwide, up 14% from the year before.

• The golden times to post across all industries and platforms are 6 to 9 p.m. and 12 to 3 p.m.
• The day with the most engagement for publishing content is Friday each week.

Each channel also has its own golden times, so check them as well to get the most out of your posting.

Golden posting times on Instagram

• The best time to post is around early evening: from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., 12 a.m. to 3 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m..
• The best day to post is Monday each week, and the worst is Sunday.
• Times to avoid posting are 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Golden posting times on TikTok

TikTok is a short-video platform that Gen Z and Millennials love.

• Ideal posting times are 6 to 9 p.m., 3 to 6 p.m. and 12 to 3 p.m.
• The B2B posts do best on Saturday and Thursday, in that order. For B2C, post on Saturday and Sunday.
• Days to avoid or post less on are Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

Golden posting times on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a platform for working professionals and job seekers, used to build professional relationships. It is also the only channel with ideal posting times on every day of the week.

• The best time is from 10 a.m. into the afternoon.
• The best day to post is Monday each week.
• The worst days are Saturday and Sunday.

Golden posting times on Pinterest

On Pinterest, the best posting times are usually 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

• The popular window is 6 to 9 p.m., chosen by marketers in aviation, defense, agriculture, and food and beverage.
• 29% of marketers say the best day to post is Friday and the worst is Sunday.

Golden posting times on YouTube

According to research, this is how people currently use YouTube: 86% of Vietnamese social media users use YouTube.

• The best times are 6 to 9 p.m., 3 to 6 p.m. and noon to 3 p.m.
• 18% of marketers recommend posting videos on Friday and Saturday.
• Monday is considered the worst day, especially from 6 to 9 a.m.

FAQ about posting on Facebook

Besides the tips above, we answer a few reader questions below.

If I forget to post at a golden time, can I post later?

Yes! You can post at other times, but as mentioned, it won't be as effective. You should still keep the golden times in mind. For unexpected cases, you can schedule posts 1 to 2 days ahead so you don't miss the chance to reach customers.

I posted at a golden time but still got no engagement. Why?

If you post at a golden time and get no engagement, you may be running into one of these cases:

• Right audience, but the wrong golden time for that audience or industry.
• Targeting the wrong audience, which leads to the wrong golden time.

Which golden times work best for Facebook posts?

The golden times to post on Facebook depend mainly on your target audience. That said, some general windows work well for many industries, including:

• Morning: 7 to 8 a.m.
• Noon: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Evening: 7 to 10 p.m.
• At the weekend: More flexible, mostly in the morning and afternoon.

Which matters more, content or posting time?

Although golden posting times on Facebook are important, content is still the core factor in whether you attract potential customers. Finding your golden times lets you attract a higher share of your target audience (you will still get some at other times, just fewer).

However, if you post at the right time but the content is poor, you may reach people, but they won't convert. The best approach is to get both right: strong content, posted at golden times. That gives you the best results.

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