Tumblr gives you no way to see your own posting rhythm, and no way at all to check a blog you admire. Paste any public blog name to get posts per week, the typical gap between posts, and the hour and day it posts most — in your timezone.
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Derived from the actual gaps between posts, so the rate always agrees with the gap figures rather than being a separate guess.
RSS timestamps are GMT. We convert them to your local time before bucketing, so the chart means something where you are.
One long hiatus drags an average badly. We show the median gap alongside it, and flag when the two disagree.
Reads the same public feed as any RSS reader — no login, no Tumblr API key, and responses are cached for 10 minutes to stay polite.
Tumblr's public RSS feed stops at the 20 most recent posts. That's a real ceiling and it's worth stating plainly rather than hiding: for a blog posting several times a day, this sample covers a few days; for an occasional blog it might stretch back years. We show the exact date range with every result so you can judge how much weight the numbers deserve.
Within that window the figures are exact — these are real publish timestamps, not estimates. What the window can't show you is change over time: whether you post less than you did last year, whether your Sunday habit is new, whether a hiatus broke a rhythm you never rebuilt. Those questions need history the feed doesn't carry.
The bigger limit is that cadence alone can't tell you what works. Knowing you post most at 9pm says nothing about whether 9pm posts earn anything, because RSS carries no note counts. That comparison is the subject of our post on the best time to post.
This tool reads public RSS, so it can show the rhythm but never the result. Rebloq connects to your own blog and keeps every post's note count over time — so you can see engagement by hour and day across your full history, not the last 20 posts, and find the times that actually pay. 7-day free trial.
There's no single right answer, but Tumblr's dashboard is chronological rather than algorithmic, so posts surface mainly to followers online at that moment. That rewards consistency over volume: a steady few posts a week generally beats a burst of twenty followed by silence. Use this tool to see what your actual rhythm is before deciding to change it.
They answer different questions. If you post daily for two weeks then vanish for a month, your average gap looks moderate while your median stays at one day. The median describes your normal rhythm; the average includes the hiatus. When the longest gap is far bigger than the median, we say so directly.
Yours. Tumblr's RSS feed publishes timestamps in GMT, and we convert them to your browser's local timezone before counting. If you check a blog from a different timezone than its author, the busiest hour reflects when those posts land for you.
No, and it's worth being clear about that. This shows when a blog chooses to post, not when its audience is most responsive. Those can be completely different. Working out the best time to post means comparing engagement across posting times over a long history, which needs note counts RSS doesn't carry.
Tumblr's public RSS feed only includes the 20 most recent items, and there's no way to reach further back without an authenticated API call. For a blog posting several times a day that's a sample of a few days; for an occasional blog it might span years. We show the exact date range so you can judge it.
Blog owners can turn on 'Hide from people without an account' under Visibility. When that's on, the public RSS feed isn't accessible and you'll see a 'hidden from logged-out users' error. There's no way around it — it's the blog owner's choice.
Yes, as long as it's public. Seeing the cadence of a blog you admire is one of the more useful things here — it's the sort of thing Tumblr gives you no way to measure.
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