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Optimize your content schedule with Best Times to Post
Optimize your content schedule with Best Times to Post

Receive posting time suggestions based on your past performance

Updated over 9 months ago

How to Use Best Times to Post (Video)


HeyOrca’s Best Time to Post feature allows you to see tracked posts that you’ve published and will suggest the best times of these to suggest when you’d receive a higher rate of engagement.

Best Times to Post is located under your Posting Times Tab in your Calendar Settings:

Screenshot with an arrow pointing to the Calendar Settings (gear icon)


How to Use Best Times to Post

Before you get started, make sure that the feature has been turned on by using the Suggest Best Times toggle:

Then, you can select the account that you want your suggested times generated for. Click on the drop down menu above the toggle to select your social account:

Screenshot displaying a list of social accounts connected to the calendar

From here, HeyOrca will generate your suggested posting times automatically.

HeyOrca syncs with your social accounts and calculates them based on your top-performing posts published in the past three months.

*For X (Twitter) profiles, these suggestions will be based on the most recent 100 posts.

Certain times will have star ratings, that show anywhere from 1-5 stars. 1 is the lowest-performing posting time, and 5 stars is the highest-performing posting time.

As shown in the example below, the highest star rankings you see are your posts that were created and performed highly at the publishing time.

Screenshot of a table that displays the best posting times for Monday through Saturday, ranked with stars from 1 to 5.

Want to sort by different engagement types? Click the drop-down menu next to Best times per day, based on To change your engagement metric. Your posting times may change based on this selection, so you’ll have further data on best times to post based on those metrics.

Screen recording that walks through the steps of entering calendar settings, selecting the Posting Times tab, selecting the social account, and enabling the best times to post.

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