The short answer
Independent, 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sep 2026
2 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 2.5). Over the last twelve months Independent sent 302 notifications, pushing on 121 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 07:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-08-28, with 8 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Independent's pushes from the last twelve months, on United Kingdom's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 07:00.
Independentpeak 07:006.6% of Independent's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the United Kingdom timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 2.7 Independent pushes and a weekend day 1.4: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Independent writes a push
| Habit | Independent | United Kingdom median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 13 | 12 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 69 | 69 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 1.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| Phrased as a question | 7.0% | 1.9% |
Aggregates over every Independent notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other United Kingdom apps
Every United Kingdom news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. Independent is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Sun | 2,472 | 15.0 | 12:00 |
| 2 |  Sky News | 2,420 | 9 | 07:00 |
| 3 |  DailyMail | 2,120 | 10.0 | 20:00 |
| 4 |  The Telegraph | 1,819 | 8 | 21:00 |
| 5 |  Mirror | 1,739 | 11.0 | 07:00 |
| 6 |  GB News | 1,697 | 10.0 | 10:00 |
| 7 |  Daily Express | 1,384 | 9 | 07:00 |
| 8 |  FT | 1,296 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 9 |  Daily Record | 896 | 14.5 | 08:00 |
| 10 |  The i Paper | 405 | 2 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  The Times | 359 | 4.0 | 20:00 |
| 12 | Independent | 302 | 2 | 07:00 |
| 13 |  Glasgow Live | 157 | 10.0 | 08:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 302 notifications Independent sent from 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sep 2026, stamped in Europe/London local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.