Best times
When could you be found?
The hours of the week when a channel with 3 viewers would be on the first page of the most categories that have a real audience to browse. A chance to be found, not a promise of viewers.
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Your best hours to go live
Best
On the first page of 331 categories worth being in, 29% more than a typical hour.
Biggest of them: Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy (open audience 1,526), Clash Royale (open audience 1,446), Pokémon GO (open audience 1,334).
Second
On the first page of 311 categories worth being in, 21% more than a typical hour.
Biggest of them: QSMP (open audience 8,662), Age of Empires II (open audience 1,211), Pokémon GO (open audience 1,163).
Third
On the first page of 310 categories worth being in, 21% more than a typical hour.
Biggest of them: QSMP (open audience 11,392), Pokémon GO (open audience 1,700), Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (open audience 1,190).
Quietest for you: , on the first page of 168 categories. Shown in your own time once the page has loaded.
Every hour of the week
Brighter squares mean more categories where you'd be on the first page. Hover or tap a square for its numbers.
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What these numbers mean
- First page
- The first thirty channels in a category, busiest first. Most people browsing never scroll further, so if you are not on it, almost nobody finds you by browsing.
- Categories worth being in
- Categories where a channel with 3 viewers was on the first page in at least half of the checks at that hour, over the last few weeks, leaving out any with an open audience under 50. More of them means more games to choose from at that hour, not more viewers.
- Open audience
- Everyone watching a category except the audiences of its three biggest channels. A rough stand-in for how many people might be browsing it: nobody can measure browsing itself, and most of those viewers are watching the fourth to twentieth channels, not scrolling. It is shown per category and never added up.
- What it can't promise
- A place on the first page is a chance of being browsed to, nothing more. Raids, your regulars coming back, and links you share bring most new viewers to most channels. With stream reports on, your Growth page measures whether the first page actually brought anyone.
- What to do with it
- If your schedule is already fixed, leave it: a time people can count on beats a slightly better hour. If you are choosing a new slot, pick one near these, then use Right now or the Planner to choose the game. A great hour is worth little in a game where you'd be 300th.
- How sure it is
- Every hour needs two weeks of readings before it is used; striped squares are still learning. Figures come from the directory checks every fifteen minutes.