“Tis now the very blogging time of night…”: When We’re Posting to UMWBlogs

Tis now the very blogging time of night
When posts do churn and the bava breathes out
Edupunk to this world . . .

Over the weekend there was an odd glitch with the scrapers. They’re still down until we figure out exactly what’s going on, so unfortunately I might miss some of the blog data from over the weekend.

But it brought up the interesting question of, if I need to test something, when is it lease likely that people will be posting to UMWBlogs. Of course the intuitive guess is “late at night”. But I’ve got data, so let’s use it.

Here’s a table and simple bar chart of how many posts were written when. NB — many posts get aggregated and republished, which means that they show up in this data twice. Alas, I don’t have a good mechanism for tidying up the data there.

Looking at 16877 posts, for you folks who like that kind of stuff.

12am – 1am	631
1am – 2am	383
2am – 3am	164
3am – 4am	77
4am – 5am	62
5am – 6am	59
6am – 7am	118
7am – 8am	268
8am – 9am	548
9am – 10am	812
10am – 11am	1066
11am – 12pm	1020
12pm – 1pm	1026
1pm – 2pm	980
2pm – 3pm	1267
3pm – 4pm	1257
4pm – 5pm	1112
5pm – 6pm	766
6pm – 7pm	677
7pm – 8pm	856
8pm – 9pm	1014
9pm – 10pm	934
10pm – 11pm	910
11pm – 12am	870

Blogging Times chart

I was actually a bit surprised by how late into night people are blogging — I expected it to taper off a little earlier. I’m also curious about the dip right at 5 and 6 pm. Is that just dinner time? If so, it might be interesting that our blogging practices are so closely tied to that social norm.

And it looks like if I’m going to be testing things, I’ll need lots of coffee.

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