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Jay Rayner engagement report

@jayrayner1 - 336K followers on X

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.033%
of 336K followers
Per impression
0.618%
18K views on a typical post
Reach
5.40%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
112
interactions (median)
Saved
0.028%
5 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.6/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 112 interactions against 336K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 6,874 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 0.618% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.40% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 81% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 38x its own typical post.

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Jay Rayner's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 35% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.033%, Jay Rayner sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,258 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,968 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.6%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video81% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link75% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 81% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 75% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 258 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Aug 22, 202638x their median

    For today’s @ftweekend I am at Dante at Claridge’s which is serving an extraordinarily dreary menu of room service quality food at excruciating prices. Here’s the £34 shrimp cocktail excl 15% service and £11 of chips. https://t.co/b3KTuOzPnq https://t.co/7nH3hjcDFx

    3.5K20054073498K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 202614x their median

    Not much to add to the words in the image except some people are arseholes. https://t.co/RqxVgylLEC

    1.3K22018250K viewsView on X
  • Mar 28, 20268.5x their median

    I have a second piece in today’s @ftweekend in which I rant about waiters asking intrusive questions. Because I am old, and have lived too much life for this malarkey. https://t.co/bAPwIWdjXX https://t.co/FZ92RNSLJB

    77268991875K viewsView on X
  • Mar 21, 20268.3x their median

    A few weeks ago an ad for Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High popped up on my personal Facebook page. So I went. So you wouldn’t have to. I have no problem with spendy restaurants. It just has to be worth it. https://t.co/g5FQmFgezM https://t.co/hsx2wbwpAu

    800526215152K viewsView on X
  • Jul 19, 20265.2x their median

    I have a second piece in @ftweekend in which, as I approach my 60th, I celebrate all the things I will not apologise for hating. It was very therapeutic to write. https://t.co/czNT9VB1aF https://t.co/cZMM3yEBRI

    5152733450K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20264.2x their median

    For today’s @ftweekend I am at Saawaros, a brilliant Thai restaurant above the Labert Arms pub in Elephant and Castle: crispy fried egg salad, 12 hour roasted short rib with pad kaprao glaze, roast banana ice cream on a warm roti, and more https://t.co/mfruRWn0f7 https://t.co/3uiYE1r42F

    4411613134K viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 20263.1x their median

    For today’s @ftweekend I went to Jul’s, a frankly weird, charmless, over priced calamity of a restaurant in st james’s. I did this so you wouldn’t have to. Have the first paragraph and a link. https://t.co/2vs2ivwZZj https://t.co/PEb0sLa1fT

    3032016638K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 20263.1x their median

    For today’s @ftweekend I am at Oudh 1722, a new London restaurant from Aktar Islam of award-garlanded Opheem in Birmingham. And oh it’s good: chargrilled shrimp the length of a baby’s arm, a beef cheek nihari of endless depth, mango soft serve. https://t.co/xmqvK04vXx https://t.co/ug0Be2M7ef

    3051815546K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.5x their median

    Time for another recipe from my new cookbook Nights Out In The Kitchen. This time, Basque Cheesecake, which I first tried at Brat back in the day. This recipe is courtesy of James Jocky Petrie and it’s a cracker. You can order the book at the link below. https://t.co/SaiakpKW2Z https://t.co/Xt3MpntMNM

    2501711229K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20262.4x their median

    In my new cookbook Nights Out In The Kitchen I celebrate the mighty @MorleysChicken ; yes a chicken shop chain but also a cultural institution. So here’s my BBQ sauce chicken wings recipe inspired by Morley’s. The book is available to order now. https://t.co/5wghWQjJbk https://t.co/64WSy0fPoW

    2421111038K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 112 interactions against 336K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 6,874 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 0.618% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.40% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 81% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 38x its own typical post.

What is Jay Rayner's engagement rate on X?
Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) has an engagement rate of 0.033%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 335,633 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.033%, Jay Rayner sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @jayrayner1 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
When does @jayrayner1 post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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