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title: "5. Discovering the Best Times to Post"
description: "Use Postpone's Subreddit Analysis to find the optimal days and times to submit your posts."
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# 5. Discovering the Best Times to Post

> Use Postpone's Subreddit Analysis to find the optimal days and times to submit your posts.

Reddit has **over 3 million** unique communities, or subreddits, all centered around a specific topic. Each of these subreddits has a unique group of visitors and subscribers from all around the world. For that reason, it's not always clear what days or times are the best to submit a post to a specific subreddit.

That's what [Subreddit Analysis](https://www.postpone.app/reddit/analysis) attempts to solve.

With Subreddit Analysis, Postpone will **recommend the best days and times to submit your posts to a specific subreddit**. We do that by analyzing thousands of successful submissions from lots of different users to understand when the subreddit is active and ready to upvote and comment.

## Using Subreddit Analysis

Head over to [Subreddit Analysis](https://www.postpone.app/reddit/analysis) to discover the best days and times to post. Enter a **Subreddit** you'd like Postpone to analyze and click **Search**. Postpone will look up the subreddit and determine the best times to post.

Use the **Best Times to Post** heat map to get an overall idea of when users are most online and engaged. The darker the square, the better the time it is to submit posts.

![Best Times to Post heatmap](https://help.postpone.app/img/best-times-heatmap.png)

Postpone also displays **Recommendations** of days and times to post in Subreddit Analysis. You can even quickly schedule a post to the subreddit on the recommended day and time by clicking **Schedule a Post**.

![Recommendations](https://help.postpone.app/img/recommendations.png)

To get an overall sense of which days are most successful, check out the **Engagement per Day** chart.

![Engagement per Day](https://help.postpone.app/img/engagement-per-day.png)

You can also get an overall sense of the best times, regardless of day, using **Engagement per Hour**.

![Engagement per Hour](https://help.postpone.app/img/engagement-per-hour.png)

Finally, for inspiration on which terms to use in your post titles, take a look at **Post Title Analysis**. This word cloud will show you which words other successful posts most often use in submissions to the subreddit.

![Post Title Analysis](https://help.postpone.app/img/post-title-analysis.png)


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