Dr. Joseph Mercola engagement report
@mercola - 432K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 432K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.7K times each, and 0.342% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.845% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #health, #wellness, #guthealth.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #health, #wellness, #guthealth.
Compared with accounts its own size
Dr. Joseph Mercola's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 25% 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 0.003%, Dr. Joseph Mercola sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 20264.0x their median
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- Aug 22, 20263.1x their median
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- Aug 20, 20263.0x their median
Research has linked low vitamin D levels to fatty liver disease. Try these strategies to help support your liver health. https://t.co/JP734bHDzM #health #wellness #vitamind
- Aug 23, 20262.6x their median
Swap that sugary post-workout recovery drink with hydrogen-rich water today. https://t.co/UGmQHDk7E2 #health #wellness #workout
- Aug 26, 20262.2x their median
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- Aug 24, 20262.1x their median
Swap phosphate-loaded soda with these drinks to support kidney health. https://t.co/H9h5Tm0pvj #health #wellness #metabolichealth
- Aug 28, 20262.0x their median
Waiting to feel motivated is why most exercise routines fail. Try these strategies to make exercise a lasting habit instead. https://t.co/139vuCHvm7 #health #wellness #fitnessmotivation
- Aug 29, 20261.8x their median
Vitamin D is essential, but too much can cause problems. Support healthy vitamin D levels with these tips. https://t.co/LgBRNBfCTR #health #wellness #vitamind
- Aug 25, 20261.8x their median
Kidney disease can progress quietly for years. Follow these habits to help support your renal health. https://t.co/yUN7pcKdTD #health #wellness #kidneyhealth
- Aug 27, 20261.6x their median
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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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 432K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.7K times each, and 0.342% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.845% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #health, #wellness, #guthealth.
- What is Dr. Joseph Mercola's engagement rate on X?
- Dr. Joseph Mercola (@mercola) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 432,462 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Dr. Joseph Mercola sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @mercola have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @mercola post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.