Comments on: Google Analytics Time Of Day Report

By: Mark Rushworth

Mark Rushworth — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:48:50 +0000

Me too… go figure

By: Gepeto

Gepeto — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:54:54 +0000

Thanks for the post, Mark! I was wondering one of these days if it wouldn’t be interesting to know the best time to post news on my sites and this is what I needed. I just don’t know why google doesn’t make this report as one of the default ones…

By: Margi

Margi — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:23:08 +0000

Thanks so much – this was just what I needed. Easy to follow and very clear.

By: Myles Younger

Myles Younger — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:51:24 +0000

Thanks! GA is not updating my site traffic today (making it look like a VERY slow day on my site when I was expecting quite the opposite). Being able to see visits by time of day has helped me confirm that there’s a problem. Now if only Google would fix the issue…

By: John Robb

John Robb — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:58:13 +0000

Thanks for that. I noticed a client’s site was down and I wanted to try and figure out when that happened. The hourly report allowed me to get insight into that problem.

By: David

David — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:57:00 +0000

Just what I needed. Well explained, needed to get the custom reporting done on this. Google should explain it better!

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:07:07 +0000

Thanks so much for this advise!

By: Dave Atkins

Dave Atkins — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:43:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information. I have been using GA for years and thought I just forgot where to find the time of day report…but nope, it never existed! The time of day report is remarkably consistent from my experience of the past dozen years or more though…4am (local) is the time when nobody is online. People come in between 8-10am…then break for lunch and dinner and go to bed around 11pm. My site is “hyperlocal” so there is no time zone shifting effect.

Bottom line: start your sysadmin tasks at 1am so you are done by 7. Deploy new content early so people can see it when they get in to work. Don’t push new content out at 5pm. NEVER deploy code changes on Friday afternoon!