Its true! there is a suitable time to post on Instagram! Just because I may sit on my phone more than the average person, does not mean others do. (but they probably do) I checked out a range of different websites, and found one in particular which gave a posting strategy I am now going to follow..

According to Experticity.com, the best times to post to Instagram are:

• Sunday: 5:00 p.m.
• Monday: 7:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.
• Tuesday: 3:00 a.m. & 10:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: 5:00 p.m.
• Thursday: 7:00 a.m. & 11:00 p.m.Friday: 1:00 a.m. & 8:00 p.m.
• Saturday: 12:00 a.m. & 2:00 a.m.

I have just taken, and uploaded an image of a hyacinth at 5pm, and I will re-upload it at 7pm, seeing which image over a two hour gap will reign in the most likes. Once the four hour test was over, I will delete the image which received the least likes, and allow the one with more to shine on my blog.

5pm

At 5pm on a Monday evening, this image was posted. I chose 5pm because this is more of a usual time I would post an image so I wanted to compare the time that I usually post over the time those more intellectual individuals believe the best posting time is.

The likes I received at this time flooded in quicker than usual, with about five coming up in two minutes. As you can see from the screenshot, 15 people ended up liking my photograph in the allotted time. 15 likes, for my blog is actually quite high! with only 70 followers, it does not work out a bad overall statistic at all. Most likes on this image were from accounts I do not follow, so the hashtag defiantly pushed up a few likes, so at least the hashtag scheme is working to plan!

7pm

The time that all the articles and social media gurus believed was the best time to post… as you can see from my screenshot, my post at 7pm only managed to get nine likes in the two hour gap. I was not surprised by this, but I was shocked that it got nine, I did think personally 5pm was the better time for my audience to like my photograph, but I thought it would be one or two likes out.

Conclusion

5pm wins! there is defiantly a science to a specific posting time, but I do feel your best looking at when your followers post instead of following a scheduling guide. Most Instagram pages that get likes at certain times like those times stated above, are probably for Instagram’s with a big following, where the overall followers of the page are active around that time. Overall, I would still recommend a schedule for posting, but follow your own annotative and use what you see on your home page, your active followers and the activity of your followers at different times of the day. Posting at 10am on my blog would defiantly not see a higher list of likes, but 5pm works comfortably with my following. Base your schedule around what you see over a more scientific approach, until you get bigger then use the scientific!