5 ms·
Best time of day to submit to HackerNews
- mcxx 17y agoIt seems HN never sleeps.
- swombat 17y agoIs that data only from the front page? In that case, it doesn't correct for the likelihood of making it to the front page.
- yungchin 17y agoYep, it is: if you view the csv with the original scraped data, you will find the rank of submissions is at most 30. (Also, you would never get average point scores upwards of 20 and 30 if all submissions were considered. And you were probably posing a rhetorical question, but heck, I'll answer it :)).
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoThe title doesn't match the article. The article is average points and comments based on submission time. Appearance on the front page is a relative thing depending on the scores of the other articles. So if 20 articles all go through at "peak" submission time, nobody goes anywhere.
- Murkin 17y agoWhat I would love to see is correspondence between points/page-rank and actual impressions the site gets. I am assuming points have a better correlation with impressions (since readers are the ones who vote) than rank. Anyone has any idea how to get better stats ?
- breck 17y agoInteresting idea. Here's a small set of data: http://breckyunits.com/hackernews_data_visits_as_a_function_of_karma http://breckyunits.com/hackernews_data_visits_as_a_function_...
- monkeygrinder 17y agoWhat time zone is this?
- yannis 17y agoIt is shown on top of the bar chart (UTC)
- mhunter 17y agoInteresting that you didn't follow your own advice by picking a time in the afternoon.
- chaosmachine 17y agoCan you do a days-of-the-week version of this? I bet Sunday doesn't look like Thursday.
- Murkin 17y agoAdded, and you are right. Fri to Sun is ~30% difference.
- japetheape 17y agoI would be interested to see the data splitted out by day also. I can imagine, HN'ers are more active on fridays than on mondays.
- dagheti 17y agoIt is possible that more interesting articles are posted in the afternoon due to the work habits of the people who actually create the content that is being linked, and posts linking these articles happening in a short time span. It may be possible to correct for this by only including links that are for content that was already "old" at the time of posting?
- joshstaiger 17y agoI posted this chart in the other thread, based on the same data. http://tinyurl.com/hnrank http://tinyurl.com/hnrank Shows the fraction of #1 stories, by submission time.
- breck 17y agoThis is interesting. The thing that jumps out the most to me is that there's definitely not an order of magnitude difference. Thus, I don't think when you submit your story should be a concern. Quality and relevance have much, much bigger impacts.
- Alex3917 17y agoWhile there's no doubt that some times are better than others to submit, I think it's best not to abuse this to get karma. It's nice having at least a couple hour window where self-submitted blog posts from members of the HN community have a chance to make the front page, but this goes away if people are spamming the system with random stuff.