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Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ engagement report

@smashingmag - 810K followers on X

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.002%
of 810K followers
Per impression
0.174%
6.9K views on a typical post
Reach
0.85%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
12
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.17/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Monday

Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 810K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 0.174% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.849% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #smashingcommunity.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.002%, Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,741 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9982.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,741 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,375 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.8%

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 11:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link20% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 20% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 267 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

  • Mar 13, 20268.9x their median

    ⏱️ Almost any kind of application written in JavaScript works with dates or times in some capacity. Initially, this was limited to the built-in Date API, then Moment.js, and now the new Temporal standard has landed. @joeattardi shares practical β€œrecipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API: https://t.co/4rjEIS5FoO

    118183313K viewsView on X
  • Mar 19, 20266.2x their median

    ✨ You’ve probably been there before. How do you choose between showing a modal to users and navigating them to a separate, new page? And does it even matter? https://t.co/AgMwivqnBU

    605127.3K viewsView on X
  • Apr 7, 20262.7x their median

    Our Person of the Week is a security researcher and CSS enthusiast who builds things most people would think are impossible. Please give a warm round of applause for... Lyra Rebane! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @rebane2001! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/rjBlyiux59

    264204.1K viewsView on X
  • Mar 20, 20262.9x their median

    🧩 Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the container’s edge. ↬ Godstime Aburu explains why this happens and offers practical solutions to fix it: https://t.co/oDwRULnw3t

    245214.7K viewsView on X
  • Jun 1, 20262.2x their median

    Our Person of the Week is passionate about turning chaos into cohesion with scalable, intuitive systems. Please give a warm round of applause for... Donnie D’Amato! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @donniedamato! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/12Q41TZ9Ih

    421104.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20262.0x their median

    Our Person of the Week is an AI consultant focusing on closing the gap between AI’s promise and what organizations can actually deliver. Drumroll, please, for... Tey Bannerman! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Tey! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/X8qauaCV2I

    319207.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20261.9x their median

    Our Person of the Week is a research leader, educator, writer, and UX research expert with over a decade of experience. Please give a warm round of applause for... Maria Rosala! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @maria_rosala! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/32SyB9F6ti

    176009.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20261.8x their median

    Our Person of the Week is an environmentally focused tech generalist advocating for a more sustainable internet. Drumroll, please, for... Chris Adams! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @mrchrisadams! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/c6bl0ekfhU

    715008.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20261.8x their median

    πŸ” The EU has published new guidelinesΒ on the transparency of AI systems. Here’s why AI sparkles alone aren’t enough, when AI labels are necessary, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products: https://t.co/PCRuMpKSIr https://t.co/1A8fCMa5Ty

    711306.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20261.8x their median

    Our Person of the Week has more than 20 years of experience turning design into a strategic business advantage. Please give a warm round of applause for... Sudha Broslawsky! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @sudhabroslawsky! 🧑 #smashingcommunity https://t.co/wQ0EIqvq8m

    217206.1K 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.

Recurring topics

#smashingcommunity

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 810K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 0.174% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.849% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ's engagement rate on X?
Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ (@smashingmag) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 810,338 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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 @smashingmag have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @smashingmag post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.17 posts per day across the measured window.

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