The short answer
25 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 24.1). Over the last twelve months La Dépêche sent 5,381 notifications, pushing on 223 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 12:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2025-11-17, with 33 pushes.
The daily clock
All of La Dépêche's pushes from the last twelve months, on France's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 12:00.
1.6% of La Dépêche'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 France timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 24.6 La Dépêche pushes and a weekend day 22.9: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How La Dépêche writes a push
| Habit | La Dépêche | France median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 20 | 16 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 104 | 100 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 52.3% | 25.6% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 6.5% | 1.5% |
| Phrased as a question | 16.0% | 11.8% |
Aggregates over every La Dépêche notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other France apps
Every France news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. La Dépêche is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,463 | 22.0 | 08:00 | |
| 2 | 5,381 | 25 | 12:00 | |
| 3 | 5,235 | 19 | 12:00 | |
| 4 | 3,718 | 17.0 | 07:00 | |
| 5 | 3,128 | 9 | 19:00 | |
| 6 | 2,801 | 14.0 | 22:00 | |
| 7 | TF1 Info | 2,745 | 10.0 | 12:00 |
| 8 | 2,515 | 14.0 | 19:00 | |
| 9 | 2,317 | 12 | 07:00 | |
| 10 | 2,097 | 22.0 | 07:00 | |
| 11 | 1,996 | 10.0 | 10:00 | |
| 12 | 1,954 | 9 | 12:00 | |
| 13 | Europe 1 | 1,451 | 9 | 08:00 |
| 14 | 1,169 | 9 | 07:00 | |
| 15 | 851 | 7.0 | 22:00 | |
| 16 | 811 | 7 | 20:00 | |
| 17 | 199 | 2.0 | 12:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 5,381 notifications La Dépêche sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Europe/Paris 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 to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.