For nemu*nemu, we chose Monday, Wednesday and Friday as comic days simply because we hoped to be able to do the strip at least 3 times a week. Most people surf the net while at work so those days seemed like the right way to go.

More importantly, spacing the comic in an every other week day format gave us breathing room to work on things during the weekend if we fall behind (which is almost always!)

Anyone who does a webcomic knows how much work it is to keep to schedule! The M,W,F schedule probably garners more viewership than if we released them on a Sat/Sun/Mon schedule. Publishing every other day also help keep the comic top of mind if we have loyal viewers. I'd love to grow our audience and do the comic 5 x's a week or even daily but it's a struggle just keeping up with 3 times a week some months!

I update SMBC every day. I've found that the traffic flow is something like this:

Top days: Monday, Wednesday
Second best days: Tuesday, Thursday
Third best: Friday
Fourth Best: Sunday (though, Sunday tends to have page views nearing the second best or top days)
Worst: Saturday

It was, to some degree, based on this that Chris Jones and I decided to make Captain Excelsior a Wednesdaily comic.

We update every weekday, and tuesday leads by a long way in terms of uniques. Dunno why.

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There were several reasons I chose the M/W/F schedule. Saturday and Sunday were out at the onset; I need my weekends. Next, with the M/W/F schedule I'm capturing the beginning, middle, and end of the work week. There's just something about starting your work week off reading a comic update and ending it the same way, you know? Plus, it's three days as opposed to the two day T/Th schedule.

Outside of that, M/W/F just felt right for what I was doing. I would love to move to a full five day update schedule, but that would involve time that not even God himself would be able to find for me.

- College is more fun when magic is involved. Bardsworth